From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2004-10-26T03:49:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Anyone get RDE working on XP

wvucenic@netgate.net ha scritto:
>>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.
>

IIRC the arachnoruby ide brings a debugger wich is tightly integrated 
with ruby to be fast (actually I remember that there was a patch to the 
interpreter available on the site ), and this one of the points Lothar 
Scholz often highlighted.