Vscode-ruby: WSL Documentation

Created on 17 Sep 2016 · 6Comments · Source: rubyide/vscode-ruby

Hi,

Wonderful repo you have. Been reading over source and docs to understand what's going and it's been easy to understand.

I'm a fairly new user to WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and wanted to get VSCode (installed in Windows) playing nicely with ruby installation in Bash on Windows. I feel like I could follow https://github.com/rubyide/vscode-ruby/wiki/3.-Attaching-to-a-debugger but I'm not 100% sure how to translate the steps.

Would you consider adding a specific tutorial, instructions, or example config for using WSL ruby installation and VS Code (installed on windows)?

Thanks

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sunnyrjuneja

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I've been able to make some basic progress on using the remote debugger but no luck on the autocomplete.

My script is as follows:

# main.rb
puts 'helloworld'
x = 123
puts 'abcd'
puts x
x = 456 # breakpoint here
x = 789
puts x
puts 'ddd'

In the terminal, I run the following command with the following output:

wasd@DESKTOP-KIQSRF6:/mnt/c/Users/wasd/Programs/99oop$ rdebug-ide --host 127.0.0.1 --port 3001 main.rb
Fast Debugger (ruby-debug-ide 0.6.0, debase 0.2.1, file filtering is supported) listens on 127.0.0.1:3001

I then run the command in WSL which has the following configuration:

      {
            "name": "Listen for rdebug-ide",
            "type": "Ruby",
            "request": "attach",
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
            "remoteHost": "127.0.0.1",
            "remotePort": "3001",
            "remoteWorkspaceRoot": "${workspaceRoot}"
        },

After clicking play, in VS Code, exits the command and outputs the following:

abcd
123
789
ddd

It doesn't appear to be stopping at the breakpoint but ignoring it. Any advice would be appreciated.

sunnyrjuneja on 17 Sep 2016

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I've been able to make some basic progress on using the remote debugger but no luck on the autocomplete.

My script is as follows:

# main.rb
puts 'helloworld'
x = 123
puts 'abcd'
puts x
x = 456 # breakpoint here
x = 789
puts x
puts 'ddd'

In the terminal, I run the following command with the following output:

wasd@DESKTOP-KIQSRF6:/mnt/c/Users/wasd/Programs/99oop$ rdebug-ide --host 127.0.0.1 --port 3001 main.rb
Fast Debugger (ruby-debug-ide 0.6.0, debase 0.2.1, file filtering is supported) listens on 127.0.0.1:3001

I then run the command in WSL which has the following configuration:

      {
            "name": "Listen for rdebug-ide",
            "type": "Ruby",
            "request": "attach",
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
            "remoteHost": "127.0.0.1",
            "remotePort": "3001",
            "remoteWorkspaceRoot": "${workspaceRoot}"
        },

After clicking play, in VS Code, exits the command and outputs the following:

abcd
123
789
ddd

It doesn't appear to be stopping at the breakpoint but ignoring it. Any advice would be appreciated.

sunnyrjuneja on 17 Sep 2016

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Any docs at all on wsl integration would be appreciated.
"Fully tested against *nix/Windows and Ruby 1.9.3 to 2.2.0" means Windows WSL ?

JimW on 13 Mar 2017

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Closing for issue cleanup. Apologies if this is still an issue. We are working to improve the core extension experience.

wingrunr21 on 3 Apr 2018

@wingrunr21 It's still an issue but I've moved on and am no longer using WSL. I've returned to using Ubuntu as my daily driver.

sunnyrjuneja on 3 Apr 2018

Thanks for letting me know!

wingrunr21 on 3 Apr 2018

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I noticed that you should set remoteWorkspaceRoot as WSL path (e.g. /mnt/c/Users/wasd/Programs/99oop), since "${workspaceRoot}" represents Windows path which is not vaild path under WSL.