@billbell52 said:

I am on this quest to get Netbeans IDE working with SU Ruby. The development version of Netbeans has a capability to attach a debugger to a Ruby process.
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From a quick reading, it looks like this is an ide to attach to a Ruby script run from the command line.

SketchUp, however, runs scripts from an embedded version of Ruby. Not the command line. So there's no port or process to attach to.

Secondly, running the rudebug-ide would not give you access to the SketchUp Ruby extensions embedded inside SketchUp. Eg., If you issue a UI.messagebox() call (or any SketchUp call) from your script loaded by rdebug-ide, it'll just get an "unknown method" error.

Third, the SketchUp Console is in control of all Standard in, out, and err I/O streams. Ruby-ide will have to redirect the SketchUp Console I/O to itself, then restore them when it's finished.

For MS windows, an alternative might be:

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=18130
SketchUcation Community Forums • View topic - [plugin] SuRDebug

Welcome Bill,

The first thing to try is append the $LOAD_PATH from the installed Ruby environment to the SketchUp environment.

If you run IRB in your installed Ruby, and enter $LOAD_PATH ($: for short), you might see something like this:

["c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32", "."]

But in SketchUp, the $LOAD_PATH might be something like this:

["C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins", "C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Tools", "C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/Podium", "C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/Podium", "C;/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/ruby"]

So in your SketchUp script, append the $LOAD_PATH from the installed Ruby to the $LOAD_PATH in script.

# Script.rb $LOAD_PATH.concat(["c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8", "c;/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mswin32", "."])

Then see if you can require the needed libraries.

You might need to install version 1.8.0 of Ruby because that is what SketchUp uses... although I have been able to copy the msvcrt-ruby118.dll from my installed Ruby to my SketchUp directory without obvious problems. (Rename original first, of course.)

Pecan has made a SketchUp debugger, but I think it works with FreeRiDe (I think?). It sounds like a monumental task to me, but who knows. Maybe your up for the task!

Chris

EDIT: It uses wxSTEditor, and here's a link to his debugger plugin:

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=18130&p=147722