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Debugging Ruby programs 101

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Level: Introductory

Pat Eyler (pat.eyler@gmail.com), Independent Author, Consultant

06 Sep 2005

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This tutorial shows how to use the Ruby debugger to find and fix problems with your Ruby code. It also presents several other methods for finding and fixing problems in your code. After presenting an overview of debugging and a primer for the Ruby debugger, we move on to show the debugger in use.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is written for the novice Ruby Programmer. To complete it successfully, you should have Ruby installed on your system, and you need some experience with the language.


System requirements

To run the examples or sample code in this tutorial, you need a current version of Ruby.



Duration

Under one hour


Formats

html, pdf


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