Rails 3/1.9.2 debugging...with an IDE?

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I was using NetBeans but it seems that support for Ruby is officially dead (with some community element just starting up). I've seen threads for hacking ruby-debug to support Ruby 1.9 debugging in NB but I just feel like that's not the way to go. I just installed Aptana3 which will happily hit breakpoints but there's no support for watch expressions which limits visibility. I can't seem to find a straight answer as to why it's not supported or whether there are any plans to include it.

Is there a clear winner for debugging Rails3/1.9.2 in some sort of text editor?

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ruby-on-railsdebuggingideruby-1.9.2
you can always output params to the page using the following line <%= debug(params) if Rails.env.development? %> I have it in the shared footer of my pages – GrahamJRoy

1 Answers

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RubyMine 3.0 by Jetbrains will let you debug Rails 1.9.2 like NetBeans used to do. While RubyMine is not free, it is affordable and a great Rails development environment.

Notice I do not work for JetBrains, I'm just a very satisfied customer.