have never used a debugger at all for Ruby or the Pythons, though I assume they exist (nor for shell scripting or PHP, but do those exist?)
You can remotely debug PHP using the xdebug extension (http://xdebug.org/docs/remote). You'll need a DBGp client too. It's useful for complex logic but I still find myself falling back to var_dump() for quick tests.
You can remotely debug PHP using the xdebug extension (http://xdebug.org/docs/remote). You'll need a DBGp client too. It's useful for complex logic but I still find myself falling back to var_dump() for quick tests.