From: wvucenic@...
Date: 2004-10-25T07:45:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Anyone get RDE working on XP

> I could try arachnoRuby...Is it worth the $50?

I'm lucky enough to get paid to write Ruby, so since ArachnoRuby makes me
much more productive, it's well worth it to me.

I especially like the debugger in ArachnoRuby.  When I've tried debugging in
other Ruby environments, it seems to slow script execution by a factor of 10
or more.  (That's just a subjective number, I didn't benchmark it, but it 
_feels_ like a factor of 10.)  If I'm debugging a Ruby script that runs 
(outside the debugger) for 30 minutes before getting an error, the slowness of 
the other debuggers makes it extremely tedious to run this script in the 
debugger. In contrast, the ArachnoRuby debugger is a lot faster, so I haven't 
had this problem with it.

But, since ArachnoRuby is currently free because it's in beta, why not try it
out for yourself, and see if it would be worth $59 to you?

Wayne