A fork of ruby-debug(19) that works on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 and installs easily for rvm/rbenv rubies.
$ gem install debugger
# If install fails, try passing headers path
$ gem install debugger -- --with-ruby-include=PATH_TO_HEADERS
For Windows install instructions, see OLD_README.
On install, debugger tries to find your ruby's headers. If it's unable to find them and your ruby is a patch release, it will use headers included with debugger-ruby_core_source. For the list of rubies supported by debugger see here. If your ruby is not a patch release i.e. head, dev or an rc, you are responsible for having headers and setting them with --with-ruby-include.
Wherever you need a debugger, simply:
require 'debugger'; debugger
To use with bundler, drop in your Gemfile:
gem 'debugger'
- ruby-debug19 maintainer isn't maintaining:
- Despite patches from ruby core, no gem release in 2+ years! - 9/1/09.
- Requests to release a known working 1.9.3 version have been ignored.
- Doesn't respond to rubyforge issues and doesn't have github issues open.
- Current install is painful. Requires either manually downloading gems from rubyforge and installing with compiler flags or recompiling ruby.
- We need a decent ruby debugger for future rubies!
- Major
- Works on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3
- 1.9.2 points to ruby-debug-base19-0.11.25 headers
- 1.9.3 points to ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26 headers
- Install painlessly for rvm and rbenv rubies i.e. no compiler flags needed
- No downloading ruby source during install - was behavior of old ruby_core_source dependency
- Fix LocalJumpError caused by using proc in extconf.rb
- Fix where command failing at top level
- Passing tests are up on travis-ci
- Works on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3
- Minor
- The gem name matches the module namespace, Debugger, and main required file, debugger.
- ruby-debug-base19 and ruby-debug19 are released as one gem
- Rake tasks have been updated
- No more $LOAD_PATH manipulation or runtime code outside of lib
- man page available via gem-man
Please report them on github.
- If you place a debugger call at the end of a block, debugging will start at the next step and outside of your block. A simple work-around is to place a meaningless step (i.e. puts "STAY") at the end of your block and before debugger.
See here for contribution policies. Let's keep this working for the ruby community!
- Thanks to the original authors: Kent Sibilev and Mark Moseley
- Contributors: ericpromislow, jnimety, adammck
- Fork started on awesome @relevance fridays!
- Fix test/test-*.rb
- Work with others willing to tackle jruby, rubinius or windows support