From: Jamie Orchard-Hays Date: 2004-11-25T03:16:02+09:00 Subject: Re: editors/IDEs VI is an IDE? LOL! So no editors/IDEs yet have the capability of irb -r irb/completion? Jamie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lothar Scholz" To: "ruby-talk ML" ; Cc: "ruby-talk ML" Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 10:56 AM Subject: Re: editors/IDEs > Hello Jamie, > > JOH> I'm curious what people are favoring for editors and IDEs for Ruby. > JOH> I've been playing with TextMate, but coming from Intellij, I miss all > JOH> the completion. > > I think that at the moment there are only 3 maybe 4 useable IDE's out > there (i sorted them by personal preference :-) : > > 1) Arachno Ruby > 2) XEmacs > 3) VI > 4) RDE (?) > > At the moment none of them have completition (more then simple and > unintelligent > repeated text completition). Even the best Ruby IDE written by the > best programmers with infinite time can't give you Code Insight that > is working correctly in more then a few percent of your code. Same > with refactoring. You are not using Java anymore so forget about most > of the tools you used with Intellij. With ruby you changed technology, > so you also have to change your tools and working style. > > What you can expect is a really good integration of "ri"/rubydoc. > Unfortunately this is a very young technology that is now useable > with 1.8.2. So maybe in a year or so the situation is getting a little bit > better (for all IDE's that are under active development). At least for > Arachno Ruby i can promise you that this will happen during the next > spring/summer. > > > -- > Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot > com > Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com > CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's > > >