From: Paul Hanchett <paulha@...>
Date: 2005-04-29T02:04:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and IDE

Richard Dale wrote:

> Code completion isn't easy to do in ruby, but apart from that it has most
> things on your list. I haven't used Eclipse, but I'd be interested in a
> review of that for ruby development, such as how the debugger compares with
> the other IDEs and so on.

Isn't the thing that makes code completion difficult the fact that most 
Ruby tools don't have a proper notion of a "Project"?  PHP has a similar 
issue, but in Eclipse I can define a PHP project.  It scans the source 
and presto completion works and so does a lot of other great stuff!

I haven't done much Ruby coding yet, so I can't say whether the Ruby 
support for Eclipse does the same.

(BTW, when I say "It's easy" I'm not claiming that I could do it.  OK? 
;-)  )