From: Reid Thompson Date: 2006-05-09T12:10:10+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby ide? Curt Hibbs wrote: > On 5/7/06, John Gabriele wrote: >> >> On 5/7/06, Andrew Buchan wrote: >> > What do you lot code ruby into? >> > >> > Anything like and of bloodshed's or visual studio? >> > >> >> I've just started having a look at FreeRIDE, and took a little extra >> time to install it from scratch. If anyone's interested, I put my >> instructions up here: http://www.simisen.com/jmg/freeride.html . Note: >> the FreeRIDE folks have an installer, which they recommend, and which >> does most of that work for you. >> >> I've got pretty high hopes for FreeRIDE: it's code is neat, seems >> modular, and is fairly well-documented. It's licensed under the same >> terms as Ruby itself too. >> >> FreeRide has a unique internal architecture that uses something call the > databus to keep all of the components loosely coupled. You can read about > the databus here: > > http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Databus > > In FreeRIDE everything is a plugin (except the code responsible for > loading > plugins). Even the GUI frontend is a plugin that uses FXRuby to render > the > UI. There are plans to someday write a a wxRuby GUI plugin. > > Curt > Ruby RDE ( ruby dev env) http://homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde_e.html I've found this to the quite handy for windows work. But main dev environment == Vim + 'whatever language plugins' fit the need.