From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-12-29T09:22:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby USB Drive

Giovanni Intini wrote:
> For Christmas I got a wonderful present: a 1GB USB drive. Now I feel
> the need to fill it with Ruby goodness, but I don't know exactely what
> to put on it.
> 
> Basically I need a portable development enviroment that can be used
> with OSX, Linux and Windows. Windows could be bypassed by putting a
> bootable minimal live linux distribution on the drive, but then I
> could find myself on a box that can't boot from a usb drive (I have
> two of them at home :)).
> 
> I was thinking about:
>  
> Reference Documentation: Pickaxe2 PDF (that you too should buy!),
> rails doumentation, who knows what else

You should generate rdoc from the source of ruby. In case you don't have 
an internet connection this is always a nice to have handy. That should 
give you all core and stdlib apis.

> 
> An editor for each platform: TextMate (Mac), and don't know what to
> use on win/linux

On Windows you could use:
	- Eclipse w/RDT
	- SciTe
	- FreeRide
	- ArachnoRuby
	- Mondrian IDE
	- Crimson Editor

On Linux you could use:
	- Eclipse w/RDT
	- KDevelop
	- x?emacs
	- vim?

On Mac you could use:
	- Eclipse w/RDT
	- BBEdit
	- TextMate

I'm a big Eclipse fan myself...

> 
> Ruby in its various forms
> 
> Everything else. Obviously I don't know or I wouldn't have asked :)
> 
> I think that 1GB should be more than enough for every ruby developer
> so suggest everything you have in mind :)

I would also throw on there a version of Pacman as well. You can't just 
work all the time!!! Pacman is a good, fun game to play every now and then.

If you are a hard core web guy, you may want to throw on there Apache as 
well, that way you can have access to a web server, and modruby to.

Then if you are really needing to fill up space, download the last 2 
years of messages from this list, so you can search the archives locally. =)


Zach