# Debug in Eclipse RDT **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [22 March 2005 01:54 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/debug-in-eclipse-rdt/17093 "2005-03-22T01:54:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wandering\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@Wandering\_Mango](https://rubytalk.org/u/Wandering_Mango)\ **Post date:** [22 March 2005 01:54 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/debug-in-eclipse-rdt/17093/1 "2005-03-22T01:54:51Z")
It looks to me as if the plugin for Eclipse is the most useable Ruby IDE; but I'm having a problem getting the debugger working. The program runs from Eclipse and gives output without a problem. But debug results in the following: Under the Console window: ruby 1.8.2 debugger listens on port 1098 Under the Debug window: \ ... Under the Event details window - Message: Ruby process terminated because no connection to the debugger could me (sic.) made Under the Event details window - Exception stack trace: An exception stack trace could not be found. Under the Event details window - Session details: eclipse.buildId=M200409161125 java.version=1.4.2\_05 java.vendor=Apple Computer, Inc. BootLoader constants: OS=macosx, ARCH=ppc, WS=carbon, NL=en\_US Command-line arguments: -keyring /Users/blah/.eclipse\_keyring -showlocation I never get to the point where I can step through the program. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Travis\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@Travis\_Smith](https://rubytalk.org/u/Travis_Smith)\ **Post date:** [22 March 2005 02:28 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/debug-in-eclipse-rdt/17093/2 "2005-03-22T02:28:23Z")
Not that this is terribly helpful, but I found the Eclipse plugin lacking most of the useful features of Eclipse so I went back to vi. Do we have a class browser? Refactoring tools? The source code wouldn't auto indent (but I admit I didn't play with it long enough to see if this was the plugin or just a setting I needed to tweak). Do we get code completion? I also didn't get the debugger working on Mac OS X. I never tried on my PC. Like I said though I got frustrated and went back to vi. 馃檪 I hope you get it figured out! > **路路路** > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:54:51 +0900, Wandering Mango \ wrote: > > > It looks to me as if the plugin for Eclipse is the most useable Ruby > > IDE; but I'm having a problem getting the debugger working. The > > program runs from Eclipse and gives output without a problem. But > > debug results in the following: > > > > Under the Console window: ruby 1.8.2 debugger listens on port 1098 > > > > Under the Debug window: \ ... > > > > Under the Event details window - Message: Ruby process terminated > > because no connection to the debugger could me (sic.) made > > > > Under the Event details window - Exception stack trace: An exception > > stack trace could not be found. > > > > Under the Event details window - Session details: > > eclipse.buildId=M200409161125 > > java.version=1.4.2\_05 > > java.vendor=Apple Computer, Inc. > > BootLoader constants: OS=macosx, ARCH=ppc, WS=carbon, NL=en\_US > > Command-line arguments: -keyring /Users/blah/.eclipse\_keyring > > -showlocation > > > > I never get to the point where I can step through the program. Any > > help would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > ~Travis ---
**Author:** ![Yogi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/46a35a/32.png) [@Yogi](https://rubytalk.org/u/Yogi)\ **Post date:** [22 March 2005 05:04 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/debug-in-eclipse-rdt/17093/3 "2005-03-22T05:04:27Z")
The debugger seems to sort of work on my machine... it seg faults if I have the "variables" view open, but seems to work fine if the view is not visible I'm using gentoo: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i686-linux] eclipse-sdk-3.0.1-r2 > **路路路** > > -- > - Yogi > Developer, [www.thoughtworks.com](http://www.thoughtworks.com) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Dale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Richard\_Dale](https://rubytalk.org/u/Richard_Dale)\ **Post date:** [22 March 2005 14:24 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/debug-in-eclipse-rdt/17093/4 "2005-03-22T14:24:51Z")
Travis Smith wrote: > Not that this is terribly helpful, but I found the Eclipse plugin > lacking most of the useful features of Eclipse so I went back to vi. > Do we have a class browser? Refactoring tools? The source code > wouldn't auto indent (but I admit I didn't play with it long enough to > see if this was the plugin or just a setting I needed to tweak). Do we > get code completion? > > I also didn't get the debugger working on Mac OS X. I never tried on > my PC. Like I said though I got frustrated and went back to vi. 馃檪 Have you tried KDevelop 3.2 which has just been released as part of KDE 3.4? It has a ruby source code debugger, class browser, integrated UI builder and so on. It probably isn't very easy to get working on Mac OS X though, I use it on an iMac running Yellow Dog 4.0 Linux. -- Richard ---
**Author:** ![Travis\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@Travis\_Smith](https://rubytalk.org/u/Travis_Smith)\ **Post date:** [22 March 2005 16:54 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/debug-in-eclipse-rdt/17093/5 "2005-03-22T16:54:25Z")
I'll see what version fink has. I try not to build too much myself on this system, though I'm not sure I have a good reason for it. My debian system is a mess, maybe that's why. I installed the base pakages, but built just about everything else from source because debian's stable deb's are two years old (okay, maybe not two years, but I like using and playing with new technologies). Maybe I can find precompiled if fink doesn't have it... Either way I'll try and check it out. X11 stuff is a bit slow compared to Aqua, doesn't have built in spell checking (not that I use it on code, but I most likely should...), and all around just isn't as pretty. Thanks, > **路路路** > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:24:51 +0900, Richard Dale \ wrote: > > > Have you tried KDevelop 3.2 which has just been released as part of KDE 3.4? > > It has a ruby source code debugger, class browser, integrated UI builder > > and so on. > > > > It probably isn't very easy to get working on Mac OS X though, I use it on > > an iMac running Yellow Dog 4.0 Linux. > > > > -- Richard > > -- > ~Travis