From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-06-14T22:04:44+09:00
Subject: Re: survey: what editor do you use to hack ruby?

Lowell Kirsh wrote:

> I've been having a tough time getting emacs set up properly with ruby 
> which led me to look for a different IDE to use. Which led me to 
> ownder: what editors/IDEs do most ruby users use?

I'm using the aforementioned jEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) and Ruby 
plugin (http://www.jedit.org/ruby/). (Note, if you go to install the 
plugin, that it fails to list one dependency in the instructions: 
ErrorList.)

I've only used it for a week (for that matter, I've only used Ruby for 
two and a half), but the color highlighting is fine (not perfect - $ in 
a Regex, __END__ throw it off for example), and the integrated ri is 
nice, though it fails to mention a given classes superclass and mixins, 
so I still end up flipping between the IDE and Firefox. There's also a 
rough autocomplete (shows you whatever's in rdoc, regardless of the 
owning class), though it rarely does any good. It does, however, do its 
job of being a text editor with a "project" view to help you edit 
multiple files at once.

That's not to knock it, Mr. Plugin Creator, wherever you are. It's new, 
and I still like it.

Devin