Shanghai on Rails- October 20, 2007Debugging Ruby and Rails

- Jon Hancock - http://www.shellshadow.com

Does Ruby Need a Debugger?

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=When_your_tools_suck...&entry=3370104583

If you’ve never experienced Smalltalk, you don’t know what your missing. - Try squeak - squeak.org, seaside.st

Debuggers for RubyNetBeans - 6.0 Beta 1 - as good as it gets for free.

Aptana (RadRails) - Eclipse based. Latest beta, October 2007, does not work!

Gyre - http://gyre.bitscribe.net/ - Keep an eye on this

3rd Rail - $299, no fast debugger yet

Sapphire Steel - http://www.sapphiresteel.com/ - VisualStudio Plugin - free / $249

ActiveState Komodo IDE 4.2 - nice, $249. Includes remote debugging.

TextMate and e-editor - simple font end to ruby-debug

ruby-debug

replaces “breakpointer”http://www.datanoise.com/ruby-debug/

gem install ruby-debug-ide

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/debug-rails-app-ruby-debug

http://brian.maybeyoureinsane.net/blog/2007/05/07/ruby-debug-basics-screencast/

TextMate and e-texteditor

http://www.datanoise.com/articles/2006/08/27/control-debugger-from-textmate

TextMate Bundlehttp://datanoise.com/assets/2007/1/27/Ruby_Debug.zip

Windows - http://www.e-texteditor.com/

NetBeans 6.0 Beta

http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/netbeans/download/6_0/beta1/Download the smaller Ruby only version

Some setup required- gem install ruby-debug-ide- NetBeans Preferences

Not perfect but great for exploring Ruby and Rails

misc notes

Free book download!! “Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Web Applications”

http://media.sitepoint.com/books/ror.pdf