I had this exact problem when I was porting ruby-debug from 1.8 to 1.9. What was happening, was a new thread was created to process the controllers after the breakpoint was set. ruby-debug wasn't hooking the new thread, so nothing happened.
This is fixed in ruby-debug19. If running Ruby 1.9.x is an option, give it a try.
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