Ruby Debugger - not working in rspec?

Testing RSpec
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Howdy,

I’m trying to get the ruby debugger to breakpoint at a specific line in
source.

Here’s what I did:

  • Added require “ruby-debug” in spec_helper.rb
  • Added gem dependency to Gemfile (gem “ruby-debug”
  • In the spec, added before do breakpoint; 0; end
  • Ran it with rspec spec/models/myspec.rb -d

Here’s what I see

  • spec runs, but the debugger isn’t invoked, and nothing pauses/halts
    for
    me to inspect.

I’m on

  • MacOSX
  • ruby-debug 0.10.4
  • rspec 2.5.0
  • rails 3.0.4

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Jason

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On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Jason N. wrote:

Howdy,

I’m trying to get the ruby debugger to breakpoint at a specific line in source.

Here’s what I did:
Added require “ruby-debug” in spec_helper.rb
You don’t need this ^^.
Added gem dependency to Gemfile (gem “ruby-debug”
In the spec, added before do breakpoint; 0; end
Use “debugger” instead of “breakpoint”.
Ran it with rspec spec/models/myspec.rb -d
This is correct ^^.

HTH,
David

3

Hi David,

I found the problem.

I had --drb option on, which caused all sorts of problems with the
debugger.
It would just skip right through the breakpoint/debugger statements with
the
–drb option on. Even though spork wasn’t running.

Removing the option got the debugger back on track.

Cheers,
Jason