From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-09-09T01:02:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows

Rob . wrote:

> Paul, jEdit + the Ruby Editor Plugin meets many of your needs:
>  - good syntax highlighting (yes)
> - code completion (yes)
> - auto indentation (yes)
> - tabbed view of open files (yes)
> - project view or a folder view of files (yes)
> - works for .rb and .rhtml files (yes, I think with a bit of config work)
> - debugging (no)
> - support for rails (no) - what do you mean by this?

Let me second this. I've been fairly happy with jEdit and two consoles 
for ruby-breakpoint and a tail -f on the log.

It would be wonderful if there was a way of getting rid of the tail -f 
with jEdit as the logs can get quite big (5 - 10 MB) and jEdit doesn't 
handle that kind of file size too well. Any ideas?

Another thing that is not quite perfect is the integration of the XML 
and Ruby mode for .rhtml files -- it would be nice if there was a way of 
getting the XML plug in to ignore <% %> style constructs, but slava 
wasn't really much in favor of this back when I asked him about it.

I'm also sort of working on an IDE for ruby-breakpoint[0], but please 
don't expect too much as this is a private project and I can't even drag 
& drop the GUI together. I've also heard that ActiveState is working on 
a graphical Ruby debugger.

Personally, I'm still quite happy with an IRB shell and just asking 
questions to my objects.

[0] http://flgr.dyndns.org/highlights-all-the-way.png