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Only for MRI, for JRuby it works. Likely different behavior between ruby-debug-base and ruby-debug-base-java.
It was bud in the ruby-debug-ide. I've fixed there and released 0.3.4 (for 6.5) and 0.4.4 (for 7.0). It might take awhile until the gems are propagated on rubyforge.