From: Frank Potter <could.net@...>
Date: 2005-12-08T12:23:26+09:00
Subject: Re: where is the Content Assist of RDT?

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OK, I tried the ri again, it works for me.

On 12/7/05, Ross Bamford <rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:35:25 -0000, Frank Potter <could.net@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > this url() said RDT *HAS* Content Assist. I use RDT 0.6.0, but I never
> > found
> > the code completion thing in it.
> > please tell me, how to find out the Content Assist stuff in RDT? thanks=
.
>
> In my experience it's not as comprehensive as with e.g. Java, partly
> because Ruby is very dynamic so the information simply isn't available
> until runtime. I've found that there's not really much reason to have it
> pop up automatically but on the whole I think it's a worthwhile trade for
> the flexibility you get from Ruby ;)
>
> It does do variables quite well I think - hit CTRL-SPACE to see what it
> knows about. It only knows about variables in the current script (?). I
> only switched to IDEs about a year ago, and when I started with Ruby I
> found it hard without autocomplete, which frankly isn't a place I want to
> be. Doesn't take long to get back to normal, though ;)
>
> (Aside, I don't know if you can get docs working, my Ri is broken I think=
,
> but to be honest I don't think you'll need to - if you're not sure of the
> name of a method or whatever just guess - most times you'll be right, Rub=
y
> is very nice in this respect :))
>
> --
> Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk
> "\e[1;31mL"
>
>

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