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Description
Your environment
ruby -v:ruby 3.4.7 (2025-10-08 revision 7a5688e2a2) +PRISM [arm64-darwin25]rdbg -v:rdbg 1.11.0
Describe the bug
When debugging a Ruby program with rdbg via DAP, the debuggee's stdout and stderr output is not sent as DAP OutputEvents. Instead, the output appears to be passed through to rdbg own stdout/stderr streams, which prevents it from viewing in the Debug Console of DAP clients that don't implement workarounds.
To Reproduce
The easiest way to reproduce is to debug any Ruby file with Zed (with installed Ruby extension):
I've created a small repo with an example: https://github.com/vitallium/rdbg-stdout-issue
Steps:
- Clone the repo
- Install gems with
bundle install - Open in Zed
- Open
test.rbfile - Press F4 to start the debugging session, and in the popup choose
Debug file - Continue execution till the end.
According to the Debug Adapter Protocol specification, debug adapters should capture the debuggee's output streams and send them as OutputEvents with appropriate categories stdout and stderr
When a Ruby program prints to stdout/stderr, rdbg should send OutputEvent messages like:
{
"type": "event",
"event": "output",
"body": {
"category": "stdout",
"output": "Hello from stdout\n"
}
}Expected behavior
The Console panel should print: Hello from stdout, Hello from stderr and After breakpoint when the execution continues. Currently, rdbg does not send these OutputEvents. The debuggee's stdout/stderr is passed through to rdbg own stdout/stderr streams, which can be seen in adapter logs but not in the Debug Console. You can check that by opening the DAP logs in Zed via the command palette dev: open debug adapter logs.
Additional context
The vscode-rdbg extension actually does that: https://github.com/ruby/vscode-rdbg/blob/master/src/extension.ts#L994
I think I can work on a fix if you consider this an issue (or a feature request) with the debug gem. Thanks!