From: Adelle Hartley <adelle@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T09:37:38+09:00
Subject: Open letter to anyone developing a Ruby IDE

It has been said that features like "intellisense" or "autocomplete" are
difficult to implement for dynamic languages such as Ruby.

I'd be happy with an IDE that let me choose a .rb file per project, let's
call it "environment.rb" which would usually be a list of "require"
statements which would establish a run-time state that would be a fair
approximation of what classes and methods would be available to 90% of my
application.

I mean, sure, dynamic languages let us add/remove classes variable and
methods anytime we like, but during the first moments of my application's
startup I usually set up 90% of the classes that I will need during the
remainder of the program's execution.

Adelle.