GDB: A Gentle Intro

This repo contains a Docker image with a fully-baked installation of GDB with Ruby 2.2.3 and source directories configured.

Build the image with rake build, run it with rake run.

Slides will be forthcoming at https://speakerdeck.com/jasonrclark/gdb-a-gentle-intro

Resources

• Excellent cheatsheet
• Great documentation
• Ruby eval in GDB
• Awesome helper functions for breaking down Ruby structs
• Debugging an MRI Ruby GC segfault caused by a buggy RubyGem
• gdb Debugging Full Example (Tutorial): ncurses
• Give me 15 minutes & I'll change your view of GDB