From: Lothar Scholz Date: 2005-04-29T08:00:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby and IDE Hello Alex, AtP> Are we questioning here the value of the project? Hmmm... I AtP> think this will not solve anything. But AtP> if you want to go this way let's compaire: AtP> No of. classes: (except generated code): aprox.2000 AtP> Total SLOC: aprox. 600k AtP> Time of development: 5 years AtP> Team: 10-12 people AtP> Investment: aprox. 1.5 mil.$ At the moment this is difficult. When i started my IDE i looked for the largest available open source ruby project to use this as a sample and try my ideas on this project. But i was not able to find anything larger then a few dozens of files compressed to a gzip larger then 100 KB. The code densitiy of ruby and rails my be amazing at the first look but i'm not sure how this would scale. At the moment i don't think ruby is a good choice for projects of this scale. My experience which such projects is that a lot of problems come from changing persons during the development cycle. And thats where every IDE is a huge improvement over a pure editor. An IDE (and some methodology, coding conventions that must be enforced) are very important if someone else must read the code and extend code someone else has written. This is just a different viewpoint then mostpeople in this forum have. Because idoubt that many are working in larger teams on larger projects. At least i never found team related comments/questions in the postings i read. And don't think that my argument is that Arachno Ruby is that super IDE that supports this right now. Thats why the version number is still 0.5.x. -- Best regards, emailto: scholz at scriptolutions dot com Lothar Scholz http://www.ruby-ide.com CTO Scriptolutions Ruby, PHP, Python IDE 's