From: Glenn Parker Date: 2004-11-25T00:30:59+09:00 Subject: Re: FreeRide experience? (especially on MacOS X) Jamie Orchard-Hays wrote: > I'm curious about users' experiences with FreeRide, especially on MacOS X. I played with it for a couple of days (on WinXP). I'm afraid that, as a neophyte Ruby coder, I found it frustrating. My utterly naive Ruby syntax errors caused it to crash so frequently that I gave up on it and went back to XEmacs. My feeling is it's not quite ready for prime-time. Part of this may have resulted from deeper bugs in the Ruby interpreter, or with irb, since I've experienced a few unforgiving crashes using irb, as well. This was all using ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i386-mswin32]. A follow-on question: Does the current source tree for Ruby include test cases with "bad" code? The idea would be to ensure that Ruby gracefully handles syntactic and semantic errors. -- Glenn Parker | glenn.parker-AT-comcast.net |