Ruby Debugging with ’Cylon’ - Tutorial Screencast

This tutorial covers the fundamental debugging features including:

 breakpoints
 step into
 step out
 step over
 The Locals window
 The Watch window
 Drag-and-drop Watch variables
 Call-stack navigation
 Expression evaluation in the Immediate Window
 Drill-down variable expansion in the debug windows
 Hover-and-drilldown in the Editor and Immediate windows

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We also have an illustrated guide to this debugging tutorial which may help you follow it step by step. And you can download the tutorial project too from the same page (note: this project is built for VS2005 but can be converted on loading into VS2008).

Go to the illustrated tutorial and Project Download page.

I’ll record some more tutorial soon, covering more advanced features of the ‘Cylon’ debugger such as tracepoints, conditional breakpoints and dynamic debugging. Note that, although this movie uses a plain Ruby project the debugging features also work with Rails and you can place breakpoints both in Ruby source files and in embedded Ruby in ERb/RHTML templates.

This is the latest in a series of screencasts available from the Tutorial Movies page.