Getting ruby-debug19 to work

rubydebug

1) From the root of the project run:
gem install ruby-debug19 -- --with-ruby-include="$rvm_path/src/$(rvm tools identifier)/"

2) Include in Gemfile

group :test, :development do
gem ‘ruby-debug19′, :require => ‘ruby-debug’
end

3) Create a .rdebugrc in your home directory

set autolist
set autoeval
set autoreload
set forcestep


4)
Specify how you would like Rails to report deprecation notices for your bugger environment, set 
config.active_support.deprecation to :log, :notify or :stderr at config/environments/bugger.rb


5) require 'ruby-debug' in development.rb. Edit source where you want to debug to include : 

debugger

6) Start server in debug mode: 
rails s -d
references @ http://bparanj.blogspot.com/2011/07/installing-ruby-debug.html