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Debugging functionality for Ruby

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Dominant language: Ruby
License: BSD-2-Clause
Last GitHub push: Jun 12, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 21, 2026
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Restarting an rdbg attach session terminates the debuggee process Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

ruby/debug#1184 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Support exceptionOptions in setExceptionBreakpoints to catch arbitrary exception classes via DAP Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

ruby/debug#1182 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Server reader thread crashes on exit with Puma in cluster mode Open

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ruby/debug#1166 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 8, 2025
Missing DAP OutputEvents for debuggee stdout/stderr Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

ruby/debug#1160 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 26, 2025
On irb:rdbg: IRB commands run in a different thread than the debugged program Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#1158 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 8, 2025
Debug gem conflict with rspec mocks Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/debug#1154 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2025
at_exit hook sometimes freeze forever when a rails application executes test codes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/debug#1153 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 14, 2025
FYI: transient dependency on `erb` means that `debug` no longer installs on Ruby < 3.2 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#1149 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 18, 2025
Inspect numbered params or the default block param Open

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ruby/debug#1133 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 30, 2025
Nil absolute path displayed for LineBreakpoint in ERB files Open

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ruby/debug#1129 · Opened Jan 2, 2025
ReaderThreadError: wrong number of arguments (given 0, expected 1) Open

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ruby/debug#1123 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 17, 2024
API for stopping the debugger Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/debug#1122 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 28, 2024
remote debugger failing on first hit with puma Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#1121 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 4, 2024
JRuby support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/debug#1120 · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Make C-extension Ractor-safe Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ruby/debug#1118 · Opened Sep 19, 2024
Option to rebind Ctrl-D from `quit` to `continue` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/debug#1114 · 2 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Aug 27, 2024
`list -` doesn't work with IRB console Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/debug#1109 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 8, 2024
The console become frozen while debugging in Rails Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

ruby/debug#1107 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 27, 2024
Having to specify bundle exec twice Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#1102 · 3 comments · Opened May 15, 2024
after_fork_parent method waits for all child processes to stop Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/debug#1099 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2024
Add a shorter alias for the whereami command Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

ruby/debug#1086 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 29, 2024
Large data output Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#1085 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 28, 2024
`!!!` to fast forward breakpoints like in pry Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/debug#1084 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 28, 2024
Remove usage of deprecated constant IRB::InputCompletor Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

ruby/debug#1079 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 16, 2024
Question: Could not load source 'Fastfile': not found, while debugging a Fastlane lane from VSCODE Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#1076 · Opened Feb 9, 2024
Slow print (STDOUT) of large objects Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#1075 · Opened Feb 9, 2024
Feat/Bug: Set the value of `_` (underscore) to the value of the last ruby expression Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

ruby/debug#1069 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 26, 2024
Proposal: reverse continue Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/debug#1068 · Opened Jan 24, 2024
History not available Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#1054 · Opened Dec 30, 2023
binding.b doesn't stop code on second controller request and above Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#1051 · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 27, 2023
`rdbg` without no arguments Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/debug#1042 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2023
Respect XDG basedir spec Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ruby/debug#1031 · 9 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 30, 2023
The debugger command doesn't seem to work when using multiple threads at the same time. Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#1027 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 18, 2023
REPL prints next prompt without printing result of previous command Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/debug#1021 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 28, 2023
Debugger exceptions crash the debugger and disconnect from the client Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#1006 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 28, 2023
DEBUGGER_.warn when skipping breakpoint because of RUBY_DEBUG_SKIP_PATH Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/debug#996 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2023
less paging support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#983 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 23, 2023
Deadlock after issuing `Net::HTTP.get` request and using a Ruby Debug breakpoint after the request Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

ruby/debug#1145 · 2 comments · Opened May 3, 2023
Ignoring debug-1.7.1 because its extensions are not built Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/debug#966 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 21, 2023
`-n` and `-e` cannot be used together Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

ruby/debug#963 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 14, 2023
Debug freezes after a few keystrokes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#934 · 8 comments · 12 reactions · Opened Mar 20, 2023
Possibility to temporarily disable break point Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#903 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 20, 2023
Q: How I could make UUID for browser connection static, aka. define via ENV variable Open

ruby/debug#902 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 20, 2023
Problem with attaching web browser remote debugger to app running in docker container Open

ruby/debug#901 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 20, 2023
Debugger stops at unexpected place when using `trace call` Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ruby/debug#897 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 13, 2023
`next` command just before `debugger do:` method Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#874 · Opened Dec 22, 2022
Feature Request: Push debugger activation to first breakpoint hit instead of `require "debug"` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/debug#797 · 18 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Nov 9, 2022
Letter S and others is slow showing in console IRB when switching lower and uppercase Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/debug#767 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 29, 2022
check_dir_authority error: C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/debug-1.6.2/lib/debug/config.rb:415:in `check_dir_authority' Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/debug#762 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 23, 2022
Connection refused error after updating to 1.6.X in a Rails project running inside docker Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ruby/debug#761 · 15 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 23, 2022

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