From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T00:53:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows

On 9/7/05, Paul Dix <paulcdix@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just started playing around with ruby on rails and by association,
> ruby itself.  One of the things I've been trying to get set to my
> liking is a decent development environment.  I'm working in Windows and
> I'm just not sure what set of tools will work decently (alternatively,
> I'd develop in Linux if the tools are better there).  Some of the
> things I'm looking for:
>   - good syntax highlighting
>   - code completion
>   - auto indentation
>   - debugging
>   - tabbed view of open files
>   - project view or a folder view of files
>   - works for .rb and .rhtml files
>   - support for rails

vim does all that, except for debugging.  I've never had to really
debug ruby much though (I sometimes use gdb if i have a problem with a
c extension).