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mitchell

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Feb 12, 2006, 8:14:50 PM2/12/06
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Hey everyone, over the last week I wrote a GUI front-end to Ruby's
bundled debugger using the Ruby/GTK2 bindings. I've always wanted just
a simple GUI debugger and not a full blown IDE. It's the first release,
so don't be suprised if there are many bugs. I encourage you to submit
any you come across though, as well as suggestions.

Website: http://mr-guid.rubyforge.org
Project page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/mr-guid

Mitchell's Ruby GUI Debugger (Mr. Guid) is a simple Ruby GUI debugger
written in Ruby using Ruby/GTK2 bindings. It is only meant to be a
debugger, not an editor or IDE. It has all the functionality of Ruby's
bundled debugger.

Adam Sanderson

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Feb 13, 2006, 11:32:54 AM2/13/06
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Hey that looks pretty neat, thanks for putting it up,
.adam

Edwin van Leeuwen

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Feb 13, 2006, 1:31:08 PM2/13/06
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Great! I always missed a graphical debugger to go with my vim :)

One question though: Is it able to work with a project consisting of
multiple files?

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mitchell

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Feb 13, 2006, 3:53:36 PM2/13/06
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It sure is! Mr. Guid loads any new file immediately as it encounters it
during execution (if it hasn't already been loaded), so when you are
stepping into a require, load, etc., the new source file is shown and
can be debugged. Currently there is no way to switch manually between
files during execution, as they only switch when execution passes
between files, but expect the next release to be able to do this.

Kenosis

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Feb 13, 2006, 5:52:35 PM2/13/06
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Looks like I might now have a debugger for my Nokia 770 (see prior post
today) ;) Arachno would be a bit of an overkill, not that I don't love
it on my desktop.

Thx,

Ken

Stephen Kellett

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Feb 14, 2006, 6:14:01 AM2/14/06
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In message <1139793290.2...@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
mitchell <ffsn...@gmail.com> writes

>Hey everyone, over the last week I wrote a GUI front-end to Ruby's

Nice.

Not worried about the fact that GUID is an established acronym used in
COM for about 15 years now? Just a thought, you may want to change the
name to avoid search collisions.

Stephen
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tsum...@tsumelabs.com

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Feb 14, 2006, 10:45:40 AM2/14/06
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On Tuesday 14 February 2006 08:23 pm, Stephen Kellett wrote:
> In message <1139793290.2...@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
> mitchell <ffsn...@gmail.com> writes
>
> >Hey everyone, over the last week I wrote a GUI front-end to Ruby's
>
> Nice.
>
> Not worried about the fact that GUID is an established acronym used in
> COM for about 15 years now? Just a thought, you may want to change the
> name to avoid search collisions.
>

Like CS kiddies and people haven't been using conflicting names before?
Reusing existing names is perfectly okay.

Tsume


David Vallner

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Feb 14, 2006, 3:18:02 PM2/14/06
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Dňa Utorok 14 Február 2006 12:23 Stephen Kellett napísal:

> In message <1139793290.2...@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
> mitchell <ffsn...@gmail.com> writes
>
> >Hey everyone, over the last week I wrote a GUI front-end to Ruby's
>
> Nice.
>
> Not worried about the fact that GUID is an established acronym used in
> COM for about 15 years now? Just a thought, you may want to change the
> name to avoid search collisions.
>
> Stephen

Sooo... Are we going to not use the word "assembly" now because it's a .NET
term? Or heck, invent a new word for "library" to make searches unambiguous?

I'm not even going to start on how bloody impossible it is to search for the
".NET" buzzword.

Searching for a single term without context makes no sense anyway.

David Vallner


mitchell

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Feb 14, 2006, 3:48:32 PM2/14/06
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Stephen Kellett wrote:
>
> Not worried about the fact that GUID is an established acronym used in
> COM for about 15 years now? Just a thought, you may want to change the
> name to avoid search collisions.
>
> Stephen

No, I'm not worried. I don't think this is an issue because when people
want to find a Ruby GUI Debugger, they will probably search for just
that, not GUID.

Stephen Kellett

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Feb 14, 2006, 5:38:17 PM2/14/06
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In message <200602142117...@vallner.net>, David Vallner
<da...@vallner.net> writes

>Sooo... Are we going to not use the word "assembly" now because it's a .NET
>term? Or heck, invent a new word for "library" to make searches unambiguous?

No. Both of those terms were in use before .NET came along.

>I'm not even going to start on how bloody impossible it is to search for the
>".NET" buzzword.

I'm surprised at the hostility to this suggestion. It was not a command.

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