From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2005-01-02T01:36:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Smalltalk like environment?Q

Richard Dale ha scritto:
> Lothar Scholz wrote:
> 
> 
>>There are two companies working at it at the moment.
>>There is no open-source project now.
>>
> 
> What about FreeRIDE, Eclipse RDT or KDevelop? 

they're not Smalltalk-ish environments, I guess.

<snip>
>>Ruby is not a image based language. Thats the huge difference.
> 
> 
> Yes, you're right - that is the key point. I've wondered if it would be
> possible to design a ruby development environment where the program was
> 'always running', and you replaced methods using a 'module_eval' call after
> the IDE did the syntax checking on a newly changed method. Then the IDE
> would need to keep the ruby sources sync'd as you changed them during
> runtime. And perhaps keep a version history of changed methods so you could
> revert and so on.

does'nt SLIME for emacs somewhat work like this?