Overview

I am experimenting with RubyMine's ability to use a "remote" Ruby sdk on a vagrant guest for all its Ruby
operations. I had already figured out performing bundle install and rspec commands through the RubyMine interface.

I have not figured out how to start up rails s through RubyMine - it does not appear to have set up
my project as a "Rails" project - so there's no test/dummy and it complains about not being able to find
the launcher.

This was not a problem - it is easy enough to start rails s from the command line of the vagrant guest.

But then I wanted to debug by setting break points in the RubyMine IDE and using its debugging features.

So here are the steps I went through to accomplish that.

The Steps

1. Edit Vagrantfile to add a new port mapping for debugger communication to the vagrant guest and restart vagrant.

   config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 1234, host: 61234, auto_correct: true

2. Edit Gemfile to add gems for debugging

   gem 'ruby-debug-ide', group: [:development,:test]
   gem 'debase', group: [:development,:test]

3. bundle install

4. On vagrant instance, in /vagrant, run the debugger server (this accepts remote calls to execute a process)

   rdebug-ide --host 0.0.0.0 --port 1234 --dispatcher-port 26162 -- bin/rails s

5. on host, in RubyMine

   1. configure a "Ruby Remote Debug" runner
      1. set port to 61234 - the one vagrant is mapping to the guests 1234 port
      2. set root folder to project root
   2. use your new Runner in Debug mode. This will tell the debugger server on your vagrant guest to execute bin/rails s and establish communication with that rails process.

WARNING: The RubyMine "Ruby Remote Debug" dialog box provides a helpful but INCORRECT example for starting the debugger server

The BAD example command copied from RubyMine dialog box:

rdebug-ide --host 0.0.0.0--port 61234 --dispatcher-port 26162 -- $COMMAND$

It is WRONG in two ways:

1. PORT is wrong - on the vagrant guest instance, you need the guest port, not the mapped host port
2. SYNTAX is wrong - there must be a space before --port