[ruby-talk:11712] RE: Starting Once Again

> 2. So far I think running under TextPad will be better than running
> under either RubyWin or IRB. Do Windows users here agree? Is there
> some other hot setup I should be considering?

I think Ruby is a perfect language to teach test first programming.  Since
there is currently no full featured IDE, keep it simple.  Use whatever
lightweight editor that you are used to, and tweak it wherever you feel
pain.

I use gvim with the ruby.vim file installed to enable syntax highlighting to
make the code even easier to read(this file needed tweaking, if anyone needs
a working version, let me know).  Also added some simple menu commands to
execute ruby scripts from the editor so that I didn't always have to pop
back to the command line.

In order to speed up the test creation process, I created a simple ruby
script to generate a test case file.  Type 'create_test ClassName' on the
command line, and the script will create ClassNameTest.rb and fill the file
with the necessary scaffolding to work with RubyUnit(looks like
simpletest.rb).  This script can be built by using a HERE document and some
simple regexps.

Hope this helps,
aaron