From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2005-11-29T10:14:19+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI IDE for Ruby

On 11/28/05, tony <L@l.com> wrote:
> slunky wrote:
> > Ruby doesn't
> > really need an IDE in my opinion, but whatever floats your boat.
>
> Why do you think that it doesn't need an IDE?

Many rubyists do not use IDEs because there isn't a big need for the
'tools' IDE's generally offer.   You're not compiling anything or
'building' applications so to speak, so in general, a set of rdoc, ri,
irb, rake, and rubygems are all you need.

I personally use vim / gvim with vim-ruby installed on OS X, Windows,
Debian/Ubuntu/Gentoo Linux, and FreeBSD.

Takes care of all my needs :)

But if you're looking for a GUI designer, you can actually use the QT
Designer.  This is explained in the Pragmatic Programmer's book on
Ruby QT

My 2 minute long experience with QT designer leads me to think if I'm
going to code QT at all, I'm going to do it by hand.

There is also a VisualStudio integration bridge out there somewhere,
though I have NO CLUE at all how that works.

For GUI's I generally use Tk or build a Rails application.   I've also
build some using VisualStudio and C# and just piped in data from ruby
scripts...

You can also build very capable CLIs with HighLIne, if you are looking
for something that just works and is easy to write.