Ruby GUI Debugger

Ruby
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Hey everyone, over the last week I wrote a GUI front-end to Ruby’s
bundled debugger using the Ruby/GTK2 bindings. I’ve always wanted just
a simple GUI debugger and not a full blown IDE. It’s the first release,
so don’t be suprised if there are many bugs. I encourage you to submit
any you come across though, as well as suggestions.

Website: http://mr-guid.rubyforge.org
Project page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/mr-guid

Mitchell’s Ruby GUI Debugger (Mr. Guid) is a simple Ruby GUI debugger
written in Ruby using Ruby/GTK2 bindings. It is only meant to be a
debugger, not an editor or IDE. It has all the functionality of Ruby’s
bundled debugger.

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On 2/12/06, mitchell [email protected] wrote:

written in Ruby using Ruby/GTK2 bindings. It is only meant to be a
debugger, not an editor or IDE. It has all the functionality of Ruby’s
bundled debugger.

This looks very nice. I’ll give it a shot, and let you know if it
sets my PC on fire.

Thanks for making this. I’ve never been able to get happy with
running the debugger from gvim, and a stand-alone tool might be just
what I needed.

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Hey that looks pretty neat, thanks for putting it up,
.adam

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It sure is! Mr. Guid loads any new file immediately as it encounters it
during execution (if it hasn’t already been loaded), so when you are
stepping into a require, load, etc., the new source file is shown and
can be debugged. Currently there is no way to switch manually between
files during execution, as they only switch when execution passes
between files, but expect the next release to be able to do this.

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mitchell wrote:

Website: http://mr-guid.rubyforge.org
Project page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/mr-guid
Great! I always missed a graphical debugger to go with my vim :slight_smile:

One question though: Is it able to work with a project consisting of
multiple files?

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In message [email protected],
mitchell [email protected] writes

Hey everyone, over the last week I wrote a GUI front-end to Ruby’s

Nice.

Not worried about the fact that GUID is an established acronym used in
COM for about 15 years now? Just a thought, you may want to change the
name to avoid search collisions.

Stephen

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On Tuesday 14 February 2006 08:23 pm, Stephen K. wrote:

Like CS kiddies and people haven’t been using conflicting names before?
Reusing existing names is perfectly okay.

Tsume

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Looks like I might now have a debugger for my Nokia 770 (see prior post
today) :wink: Arachno would be a bit of an overkill, not that I don’t love
it on my desktop.

Thx,

Ken

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DÅ?a Utorok 14 Február 2006 12:23 Stephen K. napísal:

Stephen

Sooo… Are we going to not use the word “assembly” now because it’s a
.NET
term? Or heck, invent a new word for “library” to make searches
unambiguous?

I’m not even going to start on how bloody impossible it is to search for
the
“.NET” buzzword.

Searching for a single term without context makes no sense anyway.

David V.

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Stephen K. wrote:

Not worried about the fact that GUID is an established acronym used in
COM for about 15 years now? Just a thought, you may want to change the
name to avoid search collisions.

Stephen

No, I’m not worried. I don’t think this is an issue because when people
want to find a Ruby GUI Debugger, they will probably search for just
that, not GUID.

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In message [email protected], David V.
[email protected] writes

Sooo… Are we going to not use the word “assembly” now because it’s a .NET
term? Or heck, invent a new word for “library” to make searches unambiguous?

No. Both of those terms were in use before .NET came along.

I’m not even going to start on how bloody impossible it is to search for the
“.NET” buzzword.

I’m surprised at the hostility to this suggestion. It was not a command.

Stephen