From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-04-10T12:54:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinate Loop - Please Advise

Yeah! A SmallTalk-like environment would be wonderful.
irb is already pretty cool.
But it always seems to be just short of what it could be.
I kinda wish TextMate had its own irb session ability, then it could  
be in color and have lots of cool tricks too.
But these are dreams and wishes, because I am not about to write  
anything like this myself. Not that clever.

On Apr 10, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Ash wrote:

> On Apr 9, 2:17 pm, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> - snip -
>> I did, a few moments later. doing that stuff in irb isn't always as
>> easy as doing it in TextMate (note to self).
>> I like irb because I can just ask objects questions. But irb needs
>> more flexibility (the ability to step into and out of writing a block
>> to check something else, that would be useful) Access to all the
>> running stuff and ability to change it while running. Oh.
>> self.assend_to_heaven
>
> So basically, you want Smalltalk :-)
>
> If you're unfamiliar, Smalltalk lives in an 'image' which offers the
> flexibility you describe, with a full-GUI IDE environment -- you can
> inspect and manipulate live objects and code as you develop, test and
> debug.
>
> I've actually considered building a similar environment for Ruby,
> should I find the time and as wxRuby becomes more stable.  As a matter
> of fact, I believe I remember reading on here that FreeRIDE was
> developed with that particular aim in mind.
>
> On one hand it seems superfluous, since Smalltalk already has one, but
> on the other it would be a great deal of fun to do so, and it seems
> like a fit with the language given Ruby's Smalltalk heritage.
>
>