From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-12-16T06:40:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Arachno Ruby 0.3 (patch 2)

Hello kohljonathan,

kgc> I just downloaded Arachno and tried it out. I really like what I see so
kgc> far. If there was built-in test::unit support like IntelliJ and Eclipse
kgc> have with JUnit, I would be very pleased. I'd like to have Test Driven
kgc> Development support in a Ruby IDE, so having "green bar" support would
kgc> be huge. Some Refactoring support would be great as well.

Thanks,

Unit Test support is planned but not in one of the next releases.

The main missing features are an irb like console (which is also
accessible from the debugger), some more debugging features like
exception breakpoints and variable 'watches', a code
completition/ri integration and an improved code browser.

The next release will contain only some more editor features (folding,
begin-end matching mode, scintilla like indentation lines, emacs hippy expand,
colum selection mode) based on comments from current users.

For refactoring im still convinced that an automatic refactoring tool
makes no sense for ruby because the language has too many ambiguities
for a static code analysis (a magnitude more then smalltalk and a few
magnitudes more then java). And a bad refactoring tool can in my
opinion make the situation worse then not having one. But i keep an eye on
the rrb project maybe they can convince me that i'm wrong.


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