README for rudebug – A graphical debugger for Ruby

rudebug is written using Ruby-GNOME2 and Glade. It has support for local and remote debugging with ruby-debug and ruby-breakpoint. It should work fine on Windows and Linux.

It has stepping stepping, a source code display, a powerful object browser and an interactive shell as well as additional integration and polish to make those components work together well.

It is in an early stage and will likely remain so until I have a way of using it on Mac OS X. I don’t want this to molder on my hard disk however without ever having seen a public release.

With ~900 lines of actual code (excluding the glade file) it is fairly light-weight. Code quality fluctuates. Some of the code needs to be unusual because it is executed on the server and can’t touch its environment, other bits could probably need some refactoring.

It was developed as part of a Summer of Code 2006 project for RubyCentral Inc.

  • Dependencies: Ruby-GNOME2, rsyntax*, ruby-debug* (* = automatically installed by RubyGems)

  • Dual-licensed under GPL and Ruby’s license.

  • Homepage: code.google.com/p/rudebug/

  • Author: Florian Gross <[email protected]>

See the NEWS file for the changes that were done in this release.

Installation

De-compress archive and enter its top directory. Then type:

($ su)
# ruby setup.rb

This simple step installs this program under the default location of Ruby libraries. You can also install files into your favorite directory by supplying setup.rb with some options. Try “ruby setup.rb –help”.