I am trying to run a ruby debugger in Eclipse. I have not run a ruby debugger before, so I am not sure where to troubleshoot the problem. I am using Eclipse for PHP Developers, Version: Helios Release, Build id: 20100617-1415. I am using Ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]).
I installed ruby-debug (v 0.10.4) and set that as the debug engine in eclipse. I selected that as the debugger engine for ruby. I did not know what to put in the path so I set the path to c:\ruby\bin\rdebug.bat (my install path on Windows). The environment is set to localhost (not sure what that entails, but it was there by default).
I hardcoded the port for the dynamic languages debugger. I did get a connection status window, but it was never successful.
When I try to run a script in debug configuration, I get a dialog error that says “debugger process was unexpectedly terminated”. In my console, it says:
Could not redirect message, cause communication links broken. Message: [followed by the output of my puts statements].
I’ve search for a few hours on how to set this up. Maybe it’s not typical. If anybody has experience setting this up on Eclipse or NetBeans, I’d appreciate any pointers you can give.
Thanks
Dave
The first question I’d have is whether ruby-debug by itself in command-line mode works.