From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2005-04-30T04:04:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby and IDE On 4/29/05, Rob . wrote: > Austin Ziegler wrote: > > I don't think that many people have found the heavyweight nature > > of an IDE to be beneficial to Ruby development. This may change. > > I find the keybindings to syntactic-based code-navigation and > refactorings in modern Java editors very beneficial to development. > Implemented properly this feels quite natural and "lightweight". I'd > like to see the same features in Ruby editors. > > > Ruby will screw things up for just about any > > IDE with the mere existence of #method_missing. > > Programmers may find features like "type-based code-completion" and > "find declaration" are still valuable, even if these features don't > know about messages handled in #method_missing. > > > I don't use an IDE in Ruby -- even for some big projects that I'm > > working on -- because I don't *need* an IDE in Ruby. > > ... Ruby doesn't *need* an IDE. > > We don't have a syntactic-based editor for Ruby yet. I think for > anyone who's used one for Java will tell you they definitely *need* it > for development. Perhaps the same will be true for Ruby in the future > ... > > Rob > http://www.jedit.org/ruby/ > > -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca