# Small Ruby IDE (Debugging) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 22, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/small-ruby-ide-debugging/104812 "2007-05-22T20:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jbucaran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jbucaran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jbucaran)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/small-ruby-ide-debugging/104812/1 "2007-05-22T20:41:00Z")
Hi, As a project of mine I want to build a very simple and small IDE for Ruby. It will contain basically 4 key things I need and like: @Project organizing @Code completion @Syntax highlighting @Debugging All but the last one is giving me trouble, I have no idea of how this can be done, I think the Ruby interpreter has some debugging capabilities and I think I will be relying on it for my purposes, but I don’t know how or where to start. Please help me first in how to debug a Ruby application, then how could I use this to build a debugger that talks to the interpreter. Regards, Jorge ---
**Author:** ![jbucaran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jbucaran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jbucaran)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/small-ruby-ide-debugging/104812/2 "2007-05-22T20:49:19Z")
On 5/22/07, Jorge Domenico Bucaran R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Please help me first in how to debug a Ruby application, then how could > I use this to build a debugger that talks to the interpreter. I’ve seen a graphical debugger for Ruby named “rudebug”. I believe you can install it as a gem, and it should give you some inspiration. ---
**Author:** ![jbucaran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jbucaran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jbucaran)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/small-ruby-ide-debugging/104812/3 "2007-05-22T20:53:02Z")
Bira wrote: > On 5/22/07, Jorge Domenico Bucaran R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Please help me first in how to debug a Ruby application, then how could > > I use this to build a debugger that talks to the interpreter. > > I’ve seen a graphical debugger for Ruby named “rudebug”. I believe you > can install it as a gem, and it should give you some inspiration. I will check that out, but still, how do I debug in Ruby? How does it work? ---
**Author:** ![jbucaran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jbucaran](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jbucaran)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/small-ruby-ide-debugging/104812/4 "2007-05-23T21:02:00Z")
Jorge Domenico Bucaran R. wrote: > Bira wrote: > > > On 5/22/07, Jorge Domenico Bucaran R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > Please help me first in how to debug a Ruby application, then how could > > > I use this to build a debugger that talks to the interpreter. > > > I’ve seen a graphical debugger for Ruby named “rudebug”. I believe you > > > can install it as a gem, and it should give you some inspiration. > > I will check that out, but still, how do I debug in Ruby? How does it > work? I’m trying to collect ruby-debugging related information on: [http://debug-commons.rubyforge.org/misc/ruby-debugging.html](http://debug-commons.rubyforge.org/misc/ruby-debugging.html) It is incomplete and also little obsolete (e.g. Florian’s rudebug is missing). I want to update it cca in one month or put it on some wiki. Since it is surely work for more people 😉 m.