Attaching to Local Process
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Introduction
Attach to local process feature allows you to debug a project which you are developing in RubyMine, but (for some reasons) are not able to launch directly from your IDE.
Currently Attach to Process is supported only for macOS and Linux platforms.
Note that Attach to process works only for MRI Rubies version 2.0 and higher.
Prerequisite for macOS users
Attach to process uses in its work the Python module six
, which may be missing in your macOS installation.
If six
Python module is not installed, then install it using any method of your convenience, for example pip install six
. Refer to this page for details.
Attaching to local process
To attach to a local process, follow these general steps:
- Launch the process intended for debugging. You can do it from operating system or using the RubyMine terminal.
- To find the process to attach to, do one of the following:
- From the list of available processes that appears, select the desired process. Simplify your search by typing the first letters of its name or PID
- Proceed with debugging the same way as you usually do it in RubyMine (set breakpoints, step through, pause and resume the process, evaluate expressions etc.)
- When finished, detach the process: select the or click the Stop the process button of the Debug Tool Window .
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Last modified: 18 July 2017