From: Jeff Wood <jeff.darklight@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T06:35:09+09:00
Subject: Re: What's your opinion? ArachnoRuby, Komodo, Eclipse/RDT, RadRails, etc.

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Big plus for Arachno... I LOVE it's multithreading debugger ... it's nice t=
o
be able to set breakpoints and continue/step individual threads...

Haven't tried that on the other GUIs yet ( but I *do* own and have them all
installed ).

j.

On 12/7/05, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Curt Hibbs [mailto:curt.hibbs@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:13 PM
> > To: ruby-talk ML
> > Subject: What's your opinion? ArachnoRuby, Komodo,
> > Eclipse/RDT, RadRails, etc.
>
>
> > I'm mostly interested in cross-platform IDEs that are
> > available on Windows, Linux and OSX. Of the IDEs that you
> > have actually used. What are your favorite features of each
> > one (especially those you find essential), and what things or
> > omissions do you find annoying?
>
> Komodo Pros:  Very nice UI, with intellisense, code folding, good (if
> slow) debugger.
> Komodo Cons:  This isn't Ruby specific, but I don't like the way it does
> project management, i.e. virtual files instead of actual files.  I want
> to add a file to the project on the fly, dammit, not create it somewhere
> else and *then* import it.  Also, I can't use it on Solaris.
>
> RDT Pros: Plugin for a larger IDE framework (Eclipse) which is handy if
> you're dealing with several different languages and/or frameworks (i.e.
> easy to switch back and forth between different perspectives), and it
> works on all platforms that support Java.  Comes with all the advantages
> of Eclipse, i.e. CVS integration, project management, etc.  Has a nice
> test runner built in as well as code folding.  More features being
> added.  Oh, and it's free.
>
> RDT Cons: I don't know that the debugger works on all platforms, and it
> was kind of flaky the last time I tried it.
>
> ArachnoRuby: Haven't tried it (or maybe I downloaded a beta a while ago
> but I've since forgotten). Doesn't appear to work on Solaris, though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>


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