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Yes, the debugger should kick in. The problem is that shortly after the Rails tools were developed, Ruby 1.8.6 was released, and the Windows version of 1.8.6 fixed a bug. The bug was that the Dir#[] class method was accepting paths containing backslashes and quietly converting them to forward slashes, even though the documentation stated that the first argument is a regular expression. While Rubies 1.8.5 and earlier could have an expression like "Dir['c:\\foo\\bar\\*.rb'] and find all the Ruby libraries there, version 1.8.6 (and up I suppose) quietly returns an empty list.

The problem is that the Komodo debugger is extensible, and loads all its modules at run-time, by running Dir[] on a path based on its location. On Windows this path happens to contain backslashes. It didn't used to be a problem. It's fixed on the beta 4.2 versions of Komodo, but if you're trying to get the debugger to run on 4.1, you'll need to make this fix:

Find the file /lib/support/dbgp/rubylib/rdbgp/command.rb
load it in Komodo (or any other editor), find the load_dbgp_commands method,
and add the second line (the 'dir.gsub!' one):

def load_dbgp_commands
  dir = File.dirname(__FILE__)
  dir.gsub!(/\\/, '/') if RUBY_PLATFORM["-mswin"] # Allow for 64-bit, i686
  Dir[File.join(dir, 'commands', '*.rb')].each do |file|
    require file
  end
end