Debugging in ruby 1.9

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cloudhead picture cloudhead · Jul 5, 2009 · Viewed 29k times · Source

What do you guys use for debugging in ruby 1.9? rdebug doesn't seem to be compatible.. is there anything out there?

Answer

iblue picture iblue · May 2, 2012

ruby-debug19 is not maintained anymore. All the other answers are outdated.

But there's an alternative:

debugger to the rescue!

Put this in your Gemfile:

gem 'debugger', group: [:development, :test]

It just works. - And it is included in the rails Gemfile since 3.2.something to replace ruby-debug19. It has the exact same functionality and is actively maintained.

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