From: "Rob ." <rob.02004@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T01:15:39+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI IDE for Ruby

I'm actively working on the free software jEdit Ruby Editor Plugin,
licensed under the GPL. If some other programmers got behind this
project we could have a really neat Ruby editor with many features
comparable to those available for Java with Intellij IDEA.

The jEdit Ruby Editor Plugin has already got these features:
 type-based code completion
 integrated RDoc viewer
 code folding
 structure and syntax highlighting
 syntax error checking
 quote and bracket completion
 auto indent and insert end
 file structure navigation popup
 structure browser
 progressive selection
 edit history navigation

Check it out at: http://jedit.org/ruby/

Rob

On 11/30/05, Obie Fernandez <obiefernandez@gmail.com> wrote:
> I asked Sergey Dmitriev of JetBrains about the prospects of a Ruby IDE
> a couple weeks ago. JetBrains is the company that makes IntelliJ
> (hands-down the best IDE for Java).
>
> He replied that they have considered the possibility and are watching
> the success of Ruby and Rails closely to determine when it will make
> sense for them commercially. Regardless, they are well under way
> turning IntelliJ IDEA into a platform that supports non-Java
> languages. If any of you have seen IDEA's support for JavaScript and
> CSS then you know what I'm talking about.
>
> I uninstalled the JDK months ago but I'm still using IDEA to do Ruby and Rails.
>
> Obie