http://disqus.com/by/LeeCornelison/enWed, 17 Oct 2007 18:54:50 -0000http://e168f07.7fff.com/2007/10/17/ruby-debugger/#comment-5441<p>Jumping on the 'puts' Bandwagon for debugging... one of the great things about Ruby is how easy it is to churn out simple tests for your classes.</p><p>When having problems decyphering the Rake spot messages about my Card.rb class this week, I just wrote my own tester program; here is how I started, when I couldn't get the initialize method to work.</p><p>I just put this 'tester.rb' file in the lib folder and ran.<br>Hope this idea helps someone....</p><p>## ------ tester.rb -----------</p><p>require 'lib/card'</p><p>first = <a href="http://Card.new" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="Card.new">Card.new</a>(11)<br>puts first.rank<br>first = <a href="http://Card.new" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="Card.new">Card.new</a>(27)<br>puts first.suit</p><p>second = <a href="http://Card.new" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="Card.new">Card.new</a>(HQ)<br>puts second.human_readable</p>LeeCornelisonWed, 17 Oct 2007 18:54:50 -0000