Pundit Giles Bowkett opined that “Debugger support is for languages that you can’t run tests against gracefully” and wow, has it ever set the bogosphere all aTwitter*.

I beseech everyone: please stop beating that horse. It’s dead. Pining for the fjords, fit for leather and glue dead.

Use a debugger, don’t use a debugger. Use put statements, don’t use assertions. Use voodoo, don’t use prayer. Who cares? Write code.

Since he started it it seems best best to let Giles finish it:

I blogged about Gyre, a Rails debugger built in Rails, several months ago. I blogged today a ghetto Rails debugger built out of RCov, Mongrel, and tests. People are over-reacting to this anti-debugger post in a big way. I’m so tired of it.

(*no part of that sentence is a typo.)