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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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  • You can get more information about the Ruby programming language.

  • Another great site is Ruby Central, maintained by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt (the Pragmatic Programmers).

  • The best place to go for Ruby documentation is the Ruby-doc.org.

  • Local Ruby Brigades (like the Seattle.rb) are great places to learn more about Ruby. You can find more information at the RubyGarden Wiki on Ruby User Groups.

  • Doug Beaver's Ruby Debugging guide is a great resource for debugging Ruby code.

  • I use the r43 library as an example in this tutorial.

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