Ruby Debugger in Steel - Latest News
Ah, it’s such a relief to have some decent debugging at last! We are currently working on beta 0.6 of Ruby In Steel (which will be available for download at the end of May). The big new feature in this version is the debugger. Currently this is still in its very early days, so don’t expect to have all the bells and whistles available in C# (yet). We’ll be bolting on a few more bells and whistles in a later version. For now we are integrating the ’standard’ Ruby debugging features. So far we have point-and-click breakpoints and the ability to trace into and over your code using the usual Visual Studio keystrokes. The debug inspection itself is done at an interactive prompt. So, when you hit a breakpoint you can, for example, print or inspect variables and evaluate expressions. Later on we’ll be adding in the usual Visual Studio inspector windows to let you watch and drill down into variables. There’s still a lot of work to be done to get all those goodies added into the mix. For now, though, I am still on a slight high at being able to do visual debugging and tracing of Ruby programs at all… 