Comments on: Installing Ruby-Debug-IDE on Windows

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:14:28 +0000

Second attempt at posting the XML element from the manifest:

assemblyIdentity type=’win32′ name=’Microsoft.VC90.CRT’ version=’9.0.30729.4148′ processorArchitecture=’x86′ publicKeyToken=’1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b’

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:11:54 +0000

These steps also worked great for me on 1.8.6-p287, but then when I went to actually debug, ruby.exe would be launched by NetBeans, hang, and then silently exit.

When trying to start the debug server from the command line using rdebug-ide, I got an error that led me to find that I needed to embed a manifest in ruby_debug.so, so that the MS Visual C runtime dll could be found. This consisted of:

Creating a little XML manifest file, the main element being:

(the few other surronding elements can be found in the example here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235342.aspx)

Then embedding that in ruby-debug-base-0.10.3\lib\ruby_debug.so using mt.exe:

mt.exe -manifest ruby_debug.so.manifest -outputresource:ruby_debug.so;2

By: michael

michael — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:09:58 +0000

Thank you!!
I could never figure this out. Your walkthrough is awesome! It worked with Visual Studio 2005 too.

Hope to see more from you about IronRuby. Do you think Microsoft is really serious about it? Most production Ruby apps run on Linux, but a IronRuby implementation will be interesting to watch. IIS serving an RoR app? That would be interesting.

By: Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:29:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing that Gordon. Sorry my blog thought your first message was spam for some reason. Cheers!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:57:46 +0000

Ah, I was able to resolve my issue. After a fresh install of Ruby, I needed the Ruby Dev Kit to be installed (downloadable at http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167). Apparently all Windows installations now need this in order to do native extensions of Ruby. This change (Nov. ’09) wasn’t well documented.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:17:25 +0000

Thanks for the tips!

I had this problem as well. I followed your steps, which allowed me to successfully install the ruby-debug-ide gem, but when I attempted to debug using NetBeans (6.8), it fails to connect to the web server (Mongrel 1.1.5, which starts and serves pages just fine).

I opened a ticket with NetBeans about my issue, but any ideas you might have would be appreciated.
https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179102

By: Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:51:51 +0000

Glad I could help! Thanks for confirming the Express edition. I had a feeling it would work. Merry Christmas to you, too

By: Mike Davison

Mike Davison — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:19:58 +0000

Man, I can’t thank you enough for this post. I was pulling my hair out over this one, and your solution did the trick. I did manage to get it working with VS2008 Express edition as well. Thanks and have a merry Christmas!