From: Phil Hagelberg Date: 2006-04-21T01:35:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Windows Client/Linux Server IDE for Ruby ? James Byrne writes: > However, I need to be able to run the editor locally on an XPpro but > work on files and projects stored remotely on a Linux machine. I believe Emacs with Tramp will give you that capability, if vi hasn't poisoned your mind against Emacs. =) Tramp allows you to edit files over SFTP transparently. For Ruby-specific coding, be sure to grab ruby-mode, which comes with the standard Ruby distribution, I think. You can set up some pretty nifty code completion using the snippets.el library[1]. For Rails-specific coding, you can try rails.el[2] for a "large and in charge" environment (lots of features, kind of chaotic IMHO) or arorem.el[3] for a more focused, minimalist approach. RI for Emacs[4] is also really handy for documentation lookup. If you generate ri docs for all your installed gems (as mentioned in a previous thread) you can also use this for Rails and other gem libraries. The great thing about this setup is that it's all cross-platform, you can use it in your current situation, but you can stick with it if you migrate to GNU/Linux or a Mac. -Phil Hagelberg [1] - http://cryptocracy.hh.org/~cartel/elisp/snippet.el [2] - http://rubyforge.org/projects/emacs-rails/ [3] - http://dev.technomancy.us/phil/wiki/arorem [4] - http://rubyforge.org/projects/ri-emacs/ (If you can't find any of the files mentioned above, all of them except rails.el are in my dotfiles archive: http://dev.technomancy.us/phil/browser/dotfiles/.emacs.d)