Ruby Debugging

Built-in debugger

• Step through code and inspect program state at will, more flexible than logging
• Two sets of commands, beginner and advanced
• Beginner consists of basic break/inspect/step/continue functionality common to most debuggers
• Advanced includes watchpoints, catchpoints, tracing and thread/stack inspection
• Beginner commands can be learned in a few minutes, and are good enough for most debugging scenarios
• Advanced commands help when debugging loops or sporadic errors when stepping through code is tedious