Re: Re: Is this book dated?

Michael Pavling
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:38:01 -0000

On 7 July 2010 04:35, Marnen Laibow-Koser
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Ginty wrote:
>> Visual debugging.
>
> Doesn''t seem to work in NetBeans.

-1
Yes it does (in mine at least - Netbeans 6.8 on Ubuntu 9.04, 10.04 and
WindowsXP). IIRC You need to install the "fast debugger" and set a
couple of properties on the project, but then you have the ease of
breakpoints (including conditional breakpoints) and all the other
standard visual debugging tools (apart from an "immediates" window to
evaluate expressions on the fly, but you can fudge that in the main
code window...).

The only apparent absence is "break on exception", although the
Netbeans release notes say it''s in there, I''ve never gotten it
working
with Ruby.