From: Jeremy McAnally Date: 2007-03-15T08:29:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code -- Get Ready for the Proposal Window I miss this functionality that IDLE has for Python; if any of the GUI kits were mature enough, I would be interested in developing it in ruby. Sadly, every attempt I've made thus far to make something usable hasnt turned out well (I started to do it in FX, but it was ugly; Wx wasn't/isn't mature; I guess QT or TK would work but it wasn't my first choice...). I started again with wxPython and got something working with an SDI interface, but ditched it because I didn't want to have to run Python to edit and run Ruby... --Jeremy On 3/14/07, Martin DeMello wrote: > On 3/14/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > Scite is a bit like that, at least the version shipped with the Windows > > One-Click Installer. A DrRuby would be spectacular, though! > > Scite misses out what I consider the core, practically raison d'etre > feature - the ability to click a button and start a clean IRB session > which autoloads the program you're typing into the editor. Let's say, > for instance, that I'm developing some complicated mathematical > algorithm. I can get a bit of it right, click "reload", play about for > a while in IRB using the functions I've already defined, till I nail > the next function, then add it to the program and hit 'reload' again. > This was my favourite DrScheme feature. I think QBasic also allowed > this to a certain extent, though I could be misremembering (that was a > very underappreciated IDE, though). > > martin > > -- http://www.jeremymcanally.com/ My free Ruby e-book: http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/book/ My blogs: http://www.mrneighborly.com/ http://www.rubyinpractice.com/