From: Thursday <nospam@...>
Date: 2005-04-29T06:09:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and IDE

the_mindstorm wrote:
....
> But, there is one 'little' aspect that bugs me. Imo, the tools around a language will take it from a
> 'niche' and transform it to an 'big success'. While I see a lot of nice ideas put into different
> type framework, I cannot see any big effort going to an IDE. 
> I am seeing some of them around:
> - Ruby support in vim
> - Ruby support in Emacs
> - Mondrian Ruby IDE
> - FreeRIDE
> - Arachno Ruby (I feel this is the only one going to the right direction ;-)),
> 
> but none of them are at a level comparable with real IDEs (being them IDEs for Java, Python,
> C/C++/C#, etc). I am wondering why aren't the Ruby community considering this an important aspect?

Provide specific examples of 'real IDEs'.

Remember that some IDEs like CodeForge already support Ruby.  By IDE, 
did you mean

And there are programmer editors/ide with code-completion and class 
browser that support ruby.  For example, see:

http://www.zeusedit.com/ruby.html

If you're wondering about GUI programming, I'd recommend using 
DialogBlocks 1.96 to design the GUI, export the GUI to xrc (xml rc) and 
use that from Ruby with wxRuby.