From: Nicholas Van Weerdenburg <nick@...>
Date: 2004-07-19T12:31:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Anyone tried Arachno Ruby?

I installed it  an ran it today, and was very impressed. It's is 
incredibly well-done and slick, with lots of the little tweaks that make 
things usable and intuive.

For instance, the project browser tab was on the right hand side, and I 
was able to drag and drop it to the left hand side. Things are very 
dockable ala Jedit or IntelliJ, with nice features like auto-hiding and 
push-pins to hold the pane in place.

It also takes some of the nicer features of emacs and incorporates them 
into the key-bindings and menus.

I'm also fascinated by the fact that it is written in SmallEiffel + Fox, 
with some C for the Ruby debugger.

I only ran it for 20 minutes, but had no trouble finding my way around, 
and didn't encounter any glitches. So with that limited exposure, I 
can't comment of bugs/feature set, but it looks like it will be a 
significant IDE, and well worth the price. Hopefully later in the week 
I'll get some more time to look at it.

Another thing worth noting- there was no tiresome registration to 
download. That was refreshing.

Nick

Robert Oschler wrote:

>I'm considering taking a look at Arachno Ruby but I'd like to hear from some
>of you that have tried it.
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>The only comments I can find on it via Google and Google Groups are from the
>author.
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>Anyone given it a spin yet?
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>Thanks.
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>Robert.
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