Is it possible to use KDevelop to debug ruby applications?

Question

I has read that KDevelop has integrated Ruby support and was interested to test it. But unfortunately, it wasn't easy. First, i was not able to install KDevelop both in Ubuntu and Kubuntu - it's not in the packages, so apt-get install kdevelop does nothing. After enabling unsupported backports, i was able to install KDevelop and it even sucesfully started, but the only language available in 'create project from template' was C++. Is it works as intended (not installable in mainstream distributives, no projects for ruby etc) or i'm doing something wrong?

Answer 1

At the time of this posting, the Ruby support plugin for Kdevelop 4 is limited and not actively maintained. It is very unlikely that you will find packages for it, and it probably doesn't build against recent releases of KDevelop 4.