From: Mike Woodhouse Date: 2006-12-19T00:15:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby IDE On Dec 18, 4:24 am, wrote: > "delta11" wrote in messagenews:39ihh.6144$BR1.3784@tornado.fastwebnet.it...> Try > > > FreeRIDE > > >http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.plActually, I tried FreeRide, but it doesn't seem to work. > > When I invoke it, it simply flashes onto the screen and > instantly vanishes. > > I appreciate the comments. Perhaps I should be a little > more clear. Or, perhaps I need to understand Ruby > a little better. > > I do understand that Ruby is interpreted. The fxri window > works fine for console applications. The problem is that > it does not have a save option in the window. > > I am having some difficulty executing my Ruby > script from SciTE. In SciTE save your scripts with the "rbw" extension, which seems (I don't especially understand what's happening - this just works!) to help SciTE to capture the output from print statements. Failing that, try working in the text editor of your choice - anything that understands Ruby syntax should be adequate - and run your scripts from a CMD window. > Python, also interpreted, seems to be easier to use, > so far. I would like to use Ruby since I like the design > of the language better than Python. Interesting. I came to Python second and struggled to come to terms with it after Ruby - it always seems less flexible and syntactically less rich somehow. Perhaps a Python-oriented IDE might help - I never felt that about Ruby. If you really want an industrial-strength IDE (what were you using for Python, I wonder?) then Ruby In Steel for Visual Studio is certainly interesting. > I must be missing something in trying to set up the > environment. It is probably so easy that I am just > making it hard because of my experience with so > many other languages. I suspect you've inadvertently managed to get off on the wrong foot! Of the dozen or so languages I've found myself working in over the years, Ruby is the one I'd most like to spend my days working in. Keep at it! Mike