Aptana 3 and ruby debugging

Question

How I can set the watch on variable's in ruby. I am using Aptana as IDE. I am coming for .NET and am used to seeing the variable values just by hovering over the variable.

In aptana 3 i cant find way through which i see current state and values of the variable. I seeing the self object there too much information and difficut to find the value of the variable i am looking for ?

Answer 1

This answer to a very similar question includes step-by-step instructions on getting ruby-debug-ide to work with Aptana 3. It's written from an OS X perspective but you should be able to apply it to your own setup readily (take special care to read the RVM/not-RVM notes).