Adam @ Bitscribe

Ruby people don’t need a debugger, because our language is so incredibly elegant that we nevercreate any bugs, right?

Er, maybe not. It does seem like my code tends to work right the first time I run it a lot more with Rails, but this only causes me to tackle yet more complex problems. The tools offered by a traditional IDE environment, though such things are generally scorned by Rails types (and this is a vim user talking here), can be quite effective in certain situations.

Thus I’ve created Gyre, a visual debugger for Rails that runs in a web browser. It’s still very raw - in fine open source tradition, I’m releasing early, releasing often. But it does work, and I’ve already found it to be of use in tracking down gnarly issues in some of my own apps.

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