Rails - Jan 2008 - ruby-debug will not install, wants ver 12 of Microsoft compiler

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 1/1/08, fredistic <fredistic-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> If the debugger is part of Rails now, shouldn''t I expect it to
> install?
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.


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http://destiney.com/

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