ruby-debug will not install, wants ver 12 of Microsoft compiler

rubyonrails-talk
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If the debugger is part of Rails now, shouldn't I expect it to install? When I run 'gem install ruby-debug' it runs the Microsoft make, 'nmake' and it compiles C source that demands version '1200' of the C compiler, which is old version 6.0, I think. I have a later version on my machine I could try but I really don't want to debug the debugger if I don't have to. I presume it insists on that specific version for a reason.

Is there a Windows (32-bit) binary available for ruby-debug ??

And shouldn't ruby-debug be using a non-antique version of the compiler? I've found the MS site where we can all download a free command line version of the MS C compiler but it's a newer version than the one used by ruby-debug.

I can't be the only one with this problem. We all debug. And lots of us use Windows.

Thanks for any help,

fredistic

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Going back one version seems to work:   gem install ruby-debug -v 0.9.3

It installs, stops at the breakpoints, I can examine variables, and continue. Maybe more.

fredistic

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On a similar note.. Why isn't `script/server --debugger` the default? I would assume at this point in time no one running Rails 2.x runs script/server in production anyway.