Forums | Admin Discussion Forums: open-discussion Start New Thread Nested Flat Threaded Ultimate Show 25 Show 50 Show 75 Show 100   By: Rocky Bernstein RE: How to debug a Rails application in emacs? [ reply ]   2009-04-06 13:09 No, not M-x eshell but M-x shell. Also, I use GNU Emacs 23, but I think version 22 might work as well. Probably GNU Emacs version 21 or before won't, and probably not Emacs other than GNU. By: Hooman Dunnil RE: How to debug a Rails application in emacs? [ reply ]   2009-04-06 11:55 Thank you for the quick reply! Sorry for probably noob questions, you mean in eshell? (M-x eshell) And what is program name? Just a descriptive name? By: Rocky Bernstein RE: How to debug a Rails application in emacs? [ reply ]   2009-04-06 11:39 By "shell" above, I mean an Emacs "comint shell" The "term" shell doesn't work, nor did I mean some sort of terminal shell outside of Emacs. By: Rocky Bernstein RE: How to debug a Rails application in emacs? [ reply ]   2009-04-06 11:34 If you run script/server in a shell and use the rdebug-track-attach on that you get the fancy shit. Whenever I use the full-fledged hide-the-command-line mode that you get with rdebug, there's often some situation that I get in that "rdebug-short-key" mode is getting in the way of. And this is also true or moreso with rdebug-track-attach. So I generally use the more low-tech "turn-on-rdebug-track-mode". By: Hooman Dunnil How to debug a Rails application in emacs? [ reply ]   2009-04-06 11:28 Hi, I've just installed rdebug in emacs and it works fine for ruby scripts, but I cannot get it to work in a Rails application. Is this doable? If so, what are the instructions for it? Thanks in advance,