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Description: Rack::Debug is middleware that provides a simple interface to ruby-debug. Helps debug apps running in Passenger.
Homepage: http://ddollar.github.com/rack-debug
Clone URL: git://github.com/saimonmoore/rack-debug.git
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Installation: 

 script/plugin install git://github.com/ddollar/rack-debug.git

Usage: 

 # config/environments/development.rb
 config.middleware.use "Rack::Debug"

 # add debugger statements to your code
 @user = User.find(params[:id])
 debugger
 render :show

Debugging: 

 # run the rake task,
 $ rake debug
 Connected.

 # refresh a page in your browser, your app will break at debugger statements
 (rdb:1) p @user
 #<User id: 1, name: "David Dollar", email: "ddollar@gmail.com", created_at: "...", updated_at: "...">

Thanks to: 

  Rack::Bug for a good example of Rack middleware in Rails
  Ben Scofield for making me want to build some Rack middleware