From: dean <dean.gvozdic@...>
Date: 2007-01-22T06:56:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby text editor for beginner

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you can InType http://intype.info/home/index.php
is still in alpha but is has lots of the funcionality of texmate

cheers,
d



On 1/21/07, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/21/07, bbiker <renard@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > Giles Bowkett wrote:
> > > I have a theory about this.
> > >
> > > My theory is that newbies ask for an IDE because they don't understand
> irb.
> > >
> > > If you're a newbie and you want an IDE, my advice is to give it up
> > > entirely and instead learn irb.
> > >
> > > You can get syntax coloring in irb with Wirble, and if you're using
> > > Rails, which many many newbies are, script/console is a Rails extended
> > > version of irb, which is very very good.
> > >
> >
> > Question: How do you use wirble with win32 machine?
> > The wirble documentation talks about .irbrc file which obviously  I do
> > not have
> >
> > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32]
> > irb 0.9.5(05/04/13)
> >
>
> You can't. Not because you can't have a .irbrc file (You just need to
> specify a directory in the HOME environment variable, and put it
> there).. but because Microsoft got rid of color support in the command
> prompt.
> You could disable color in wirble and make it work though, I suspect.
>
>

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