From: Detlev Offenbach <detlev@...>
Date: 2007-01-25T04:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby IDE for Windows 98?

Bart Braem wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> In a few weeks I am going to teach a class of 16 year old students how
> to program. From scratch. With Ruby. (We have good reasons, I'll
> explain them if you like.) With an IDE. (To get rid of the terminal
> fears.) Now the problem is that their school runs Windows 98. We love
> FreeRIDE, it's a good IDE, but it does not run under Windows 98. And
> that's not good. Their teacher is not happy about it any more as ruby
> seems hard on a console. And that's a pity.
> So, which good Ruby IDE works in Windows 98?
> 
> The Ruby Eclipse Development tool seems to have lots of buttons and all
> kinds of Java related stuff. We want to be clear for students so that's
> why FreeRIDE seemed better...
> 
> Do you have any other suggestions? We just want a good IDE that
> abstracts the command prompt in Windows 98, so what do you suggest? We
> are starting to get desperate, we want to teach those students
> programming the good way...
> 

You could try eric4 (currently available as snapshots). It is written in
Python but supports Ruby as well (including debugging support).

Detlev
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