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How to debug ruby on rails in eclipse aptana plugin

Asked 2011-05-24T00:27:44.693
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I'm trying to figure out this eclipse aptana plugin (coming from a visual studio background). When I try to debug my project as follows:

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It throws this error:

Unable to find 'rdebug-ide' binary script. May need to install 'ruby-debug-ide' gem, or may need to add your gem executable directory to your PATH (check location via 'gem environment').

This is gem environment:

RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.5.2
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.9.2 (2011-02-18 patchlevel 180) [i386-mingw32]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: C:/Ruby192/bin/ruby.exe
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: C:/Ruby192/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-mingw32
  - GEM PATHS:
     - C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
     - C:/Users/Lol/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://rubygems.org/

The server can be started, I can go to localhost:3000 and it loads. But I dont understand this error or how to get debugging started. Any idea what is wrong?

PS. Coming from an asp.net mvc background, I can right click controllers folder and add controller. Then right click an action and generate a view for it. Can I not do this in ruby on rails development?

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I'm also having this problem on 64-bit Ubuntu. Not only can I not debug, now when I open the IDE it gives strange UI errors. The package explorer won't display and dialogs keep popping up.

Here's the listing I get from my Rails install

Installing RDoc documentation for ruby-debug-ide-0.4.16...
mel@ubuntu:/usr/share/eclipse/features$ gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)
daemons (1.1.4)
fastthread (1.0.7)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
linecache (0.46)
mongrel (1.1.5)
rake (0.9.2)
rbx-require-relative (0.0.5)
ruby-debug-base (0.10.4)
ruby-debug-ide (0.4.16)
ruby-mysql (2.9.4)

mel@ubuntu:/usr/share/eclipse/features$ gem environment
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.7
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [x86_64-linux]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /var/lib/gems/1.8
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby1.8
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86_64-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /var/lib/gems/1.8
     - /home/mel/.gem/ruby/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://rubygems.org/
answered 2011-08-11T23:12:34.417

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