"Ruby has no debugger" - this misconception has stuck around for ages. Time to eradicate it: Ruby does indeed have powerful debugging support. We look at what's available for all Ruby implementations.

This is the third post in a series. The first two were on Browsing Memory the JRuby Way and Finding Leaks in Ruby Apps with Eclipse Memory Analyzer Hello again, friends! I'm back with more ...

Rocky Bernstein, one of the maintainers of the ruby-debug gem, agreed to push our ruby-debug-base to the canonical rubygems.org repository. As a result, ruby-debug now installs properly on JRuby.

A first incarnation of ruby-debug support on 1.9 is now available. Ruby switcher makes it easy to run different Ruby versions in parallel. Also: MacRuby's experimental branch was merged into MacRuby T ...

Conclusion Debugging Web applications has never been easy, but the Ruby on Rails community has managed to create a set of useful and powerful tools that can make a big difference to average Web ...

The performance hit from debugging with Cylon is barely noticeable, which is not the case with the standard Ruby debugger.