ruby-debug with Ruby 1.9.3?

dkobozev picture dkobozev · Nov 11, 2011 · Viewed 37.6k times · Source

I just updated to Ruby 1.9.3p0 and Rails 3.1.1. Now when I try to launch the server, it complains that I should install ruby-debug, even though it's already installed.

% rails server --environment=development --debug
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 3.1.0 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
You need to install ruby-debug to run the server in debugging mode. With gems, use 'gem install ruby-debug'
Exiting

In my Gemfile I have

# see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1083451/debugging-in-ruby-1-9
gem 'ruby-debug-base19', "0.11.24"
gem 'ruby-debug19', "0.11.6"

Is it possible to run debug with the latest version of Ruby?

Answer

Dty picture Dty · Nov 11, 2011

Update (April 28, 2012)

Try the new debugger gem as a replacement for ruby-debug.

(credit to @ryanb)


Update (March 2, 2012)

Installation of linecache19 and ruby-debug-base19 can be easily done with:

bash < <(curl -L https://raw.github.com/gist/1333785)

(credit to @fredostarr)


Original answer

Have you looked at ruby-debug19 on ruby-1.9.3-preview1?

Here's a temporary solution: http://blog.wyeworks.com/2011/11/1/ruby-1-9-3-and-ruby-debug

Excerpt from the site:

First download linecache19-0.5.13.gem and ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26.gem from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=8883, then …

$ gem install linecache19-0.5.13.gem 
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed linecache19-0.5.13
1 gem installed
$ gem install ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26.gem -- --with-ruby-include=/Users/santiago/.rbenv/source/ruby-1.9.3-p0  
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed ruby-debug-base19-0.11.26
1 gem installed
$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'ruby-debug'
=> true