Ruby 1.9.1 and Aptana Studio 3 Cant get debug to work (Windows)

So for the last few weeks ive been reading posts on SO and other sites about Ruby IDE's, especially for support with Ruby 1.9. Aptana/RadRails plugin looks amazing as im very used to the eclipse environment, so I thought id give it a try.

I installed ruby 1.9.1 with ruby installer and also installed devKit and Aptana studio 3. However I cant debug in Aptana as I get the following error:

c:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:323:in `bin_path': can't find gem ruby-debug-ide ([">= 0"]) (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
    from <internal:gem_prelude>:346:in `method_missing'
    from c:/Ruby191/bin/rdebug-ide:19:in `<main>'

So i tried to do a gem install ruby-debug-ide and get the following:

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing ruby-debug-ide:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.开发者_JAVA百科

c:/Ruby191/bin/ruby.exe mkrf_conf.rb
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...


Gem files will remain installed in c:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-debug-ide-0.4.16 for inspection.
Results logged to c:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-debug-ide-0.4.16/ext/gem_make.out

It appears to be ridiculously difficult to get a decent IDE with ruby 1.9 support with a functioning debugger - I am clearly doing it wrong, any help would be appreciated.

-----EDIT-----

Output of c:/Ruby191/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ruby-debug-ide-0.4.16/ext/gem_make.out below

C:/Ruby191/bin/ruby.exe mkrf_conf.rb
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...

Aly

What are the contents of gem_make.out mentioned in the output?

For Ruby 1.9.x, you need ruby-debug-ide19, since it works with 1.9.x versions of Ruby.

Also, you need a compiler. If you're using RubyInstaller releases, you need to obtain RubyInstaller Development Kit, listed in the downloads page

Please read the text in that page and the Development Kit instructions in our wiki.

EDIT: Based on the lack of content of your gem_make.out file (since it shouldn't say anything about building extensions) I would recommend you look at RubyInstaller Troubleshooting page in our wiki.

I had a similar issue: could not debug, and also could not run a file with a require of a file in the folder.

I rolled back by Ruby installation to 1.87, and all is working.

Apologies in advance if you really need 1.9x.

I also had these build issues when using ruby 1.9.3.See my answer here : Ruby-debug not working - Stack Overflow

It's about getting Ruby debugging to work with the following setup

• Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2
• Aptana Studio 3 (Build 3.0.8.201201201658)

• Using rvm, in my project working directory I have a .rvmrc stating:

  rvm use ruby-1.9.3-p0@mygemset
  

I hope this helps!

-- Freddy

One thing you might want to do is include the path to your "rdebug-ide" file (this is a file without an extension) in your Path env variable. Although this might be a hack, it worked for me. Mine was located at: C:\RailsInstaller\Ruby2.0.0\lib\ruby\gems\2.0.0\gems\ruby-debug-ide-0.4.22\bin

It may be in a different location if you didn't use RailsInstaller.

You also need to ensure that your GEM_HOME variable is pointing to the proper location.

Hope this helps!