From: Hendrik Volkmer <solaris@...>
Date: 2007-01-19T18:15:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby text editor for beginner

Mat Schaffer schrieb:
> While not a text editor, I'd recommend eclipse.  It's default scheme
> is blank on white, but you can configure it.  If you download
> RadRails, it'll come with everything you need to do Ruby projects as
> well.  
There's a nice TextMate-style theme for RadRails if you like the colors:
http://drnicwilliams.com/2006/08/08/textmate-theme-for-radrails/
> It lacks auto completion, but has everything else you're looking for.  
What do you mean by "auto completion"? Defining templates and using
Ctrl+Space works fine. So you could type
de<Ctrl+Space>method_name

and end up with

def method_name
  <cursor goes here>
end

Completion for variable names etc. is supposed to work, too but somehow
it hasn't worked for me so far (maybe I'll need to upgrade to a newer
version...).
> It even handles subversion and unit testing, which you'll probably get
> into once your projects grow a little larger.
I second that. The subversion integration is quite good and it's nice to
see the green unit test bar and the Ctrl+F11 shortcut makes it easy to
repeatedly run tests.

Hendrik