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Debugging Ruby programs 101

How to use Ruby's debugger to fix problems in your code

Pat Eyler (pat.eyler@gmail.com), Co-founder, Seattle Ruby Brigade

Pat Eyler is a co-founder of the Seattle Ruby Brigade and has been an active member of the Ruby community for nearly five years. He currently maintains the r43 library. Pat has written about free software, Linux, Ruby, and networking for several print- and Web-based publishers.

Summary: This tutorial shows how to use the Ruby debugger to find and fix problems with your Ruby code. It also presents several other methods for finding and fixing problems in your code. After presenting an overview of debugging and a primer for the Ruby debugger, we move on to show the debugger in use.

Date: 06 Sep 2005
Level: Introductory
PDF: A4 and Letter (76 KB | 28 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Before you start

Prerequisites

This tutorial teaches you how to use the debugger shipped with Ruby. It also presents several other methods for finding and fixing problems in your code. After presenting an overview of debugging and a primer for the Ruby debugger, this tutorial moves on to show the debugger in use.

This tutorial is written for the novice Ruby Programmer. To complete it successfully, you should have Ruby installed on your system, and you need some experience with the language.

To run the examples or sample code in this tutorial, you need a current version of Ruby (V1.8.2, as of this writing). Everything else you need is built right into that version.

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