Ruby-Debug19 with Ruby Head
Just in case you didn’t know by now, true to my name, I use HEAD version of Ruby. That’s 1.9.2dev at this time, and I already made a post on how I compile it from the source here.
Ruby-Debug is one of my indispensable tool. I’d be lost without it along with all the testing framework. You see, I really don’t know how to develop without testing and debugging. I’m a devoted Catholic so my faith is unshakeable, but that’s the religion, not the code.
I was going to give up on the latest Ruby because I had a bitch of time trying to install it. Well, it turns out that I was making a stupid mistake and although I feel embarrassed to admit, I’ll post the instruction here.
To install ruby-debug19, do the following:
That’s all! I was keep pointing to a wrong directory. This is a good reason why you shouldn’t remove the source directory after you compile and install Ruby.