From: Hank Gong <hankgong@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T06:59:59+09:00
Subject: Re: ArachnoRuby -- a professional Ruby IDE

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Hi, did you try the Ruby editor RDE?
What's your feeling with that? Currently I'm using RDE, I think it's not
bad...
Most important thing is that it's free!!!

Hank


On 12/7/05, Wayne Vucenic <nightphotos@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Christer,
>
> On 12/6/05, Christer Nilsson <janchrister.nilsson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I compared ArachnoRuby with Komodo, using my solution for RubyQuiz #57.
> > ArachnoRuby was 197 times faster !
> >
> > Thank you Wayne, for pointing out ArachnoRuby.
>
> You're very welcome!
>
> >Their web page wasn't very convincing, but the numbers above are.
>
> I believe ArachnoRuby development is currently focused on enhancing
> the product rather than doing PR/Website stuff.  So the product is
> excellent, but the website doesn't fully convey that.
>
> I think I've tried every Ruby IDE available on Windows (including some
> lesser known ones like Mondrian), and ArachnoRuby is what I've chosen
> to use.
>
> I earn (part of) my living programming in Ruby, and I simply wouldn't
> be able to do much of this work without ArachnoRuby.  Sometimes in my
> work I have a Ruby script that takes an hour to run, which gets some
> weird error near the end of the run.  Before ArachnoRuby I simply
> couldn't debug these scripts, as in the other debuggers it would have
> taken days to get to the point of reproducing the error.  So there
> were many projects I couldn't even attempt in Ruby, because I knew
> that if I had a problem I might not be able to effectively debug it.
>
> I've been using ArachroRuby for well over a year.  Sometimes I use it
> 8+ hours a day, 5+ days a week.  It's never let me down.  It is still
> in beta, so there are occasional glitches, but they're pretty minor.
> It used to crash at times (that's become pretty infrequent lately),
> but when this happened I'd just restart it.  It would automatically
> re-open the files I'd had open, and I'd pick up where I left off.  I
> only lost code I'd typed once or twice, and this was never more than a
> line or so.  Not a big deal.
>
> Two of the features I like a lot are the Ruby Gems browser (Tools
> menu, then "Ruby Gems Browser...") which makes RubyGems so much easier
> to work with than the usual command line tools,
>
> and the Ruby Class browser  (Tools menu, then "Ruby Class
> Browser...").  Currently the class browser only works with the classes
> in Ruby and in the standard library, but in the future you'll be able
> to add your own classes to it.
>
> (I have no financial or other connection with ArachnoRuby, except as a
> _very_ satisfied user and beta tester.)
>
> Wayne
>
> ---
> Wayne Vucenic
> No Bugs Software
> "Ruby and C++ Agile Contract Programming in Silicon Valley"
>
>

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