From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T02:19:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows

On 9/7/05, graham <fghfghfh@homr.vom> wrote:
> Paul Dix wrote:
> > One of the things I've been trying to get set to my
> > liking is a decent development environment...
> I agree. I have tried to "sell" ruby at work, and all the Java
> developers say "Where is the equivalent of JBuilder / Eclipse / NetBeans
>   etc"
> I try to say there is an Eclipse plugin - but
> a) It doesn't work in the latest Eclipse release
> b) It seems very restricted in supplied functionality compare with what
> is available in the Java perspective
> c) Saying "I've got colour coded text in <editor name here>" just isn't
> good enough, and can't be called an IDE. (Try www.PSPad.com for a good
> free text editor though)
> 
> I've downloaded ArachnoRuby - but it never seems to get finished - and
> is pretty complex. Looks like it would have all the tools you would need
>   in it though - assuming it matures soon. (have to pay for it of course)
> 
> Other things - like RDE and Mondrian just plain don't work from the
> point & click installer. If it don't work on installation - what hope is
> there of it working properly as a debugger.

You could ask them why they need all that IDE stuff for developing in Ruby.