From: tony summerfelt <snowzone5@...>
Date: 2005-08-27T00:50:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Good cross-platform IDE / multiple document text editor for ruby / rails?

Randy Kramer wrote on 8/25/2005 11:19 AM:

>>i'm not sure i'd use 'snappy' and 'eclipse' together :)

> And, Off Point for this post, I guess if I was going to ask for a snappy 
> whatever, I'd say something about the environment, like snappy on a system 
> running a 233 MHz Pentium, 256 MB of RAM, running a mix of processes 
> typically including 5 open edit windows, 10 browser windows, ...

then i think it was relevant. i've tried all the ide's on a PII/350
with plenty of ram. i found jedit, eclipse, mondrian, and freeride
unsable. arachno-ruby seemed to have problems on win2k on that system.

vim worked great (and was 'snappy') but it's editor not really an ide

i've tried all the above on a 2gig system with a 1gig of ram on xp.
eclipse was still unusable, jedit was 'slowish'. i'm assuming it's
because those two were java based.

coudln't get mondrian installed/working, freeride was usable, but
seemed to be chugging. i settled on arachno-ruby.

if i need quickie ruby code i'll fire up vim or boxer

> system is 500 MHZ with 384 MB of RAM, 

i'd be suprised if you were happy with the performance of eclipse,
jedit or freeride. features of those ide's aside, i found it painful
to write any serious code with.


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