From: "bgulian@..." <bgulian@...>
Date: 2007-04-13T22:35:08+09:00
Subject: Re: What is your favourite IDE?

On Apr 12, 11:14 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <z...@cesmail.net>
wrote:
> Vlad Ciubotariu wrote:
> > Is anyone using Activestate's Kodomo? I know activestate is a player in
> > the perl community but I don't know much about the ruby world.
<snip....>
> I'm using Komodo and I like it. I did a rather lengthy evaluation, and
<snip ..>
> or a desktop other than KDE, you have a fair amount of work to do.
> Komodo runs on at least Windows and Linux, is toolkit neutral (but
> prefers Tk / ActiveTcl), and has a pretty good Ruby interface. >
>

Komodo runs just as well on a Mac. One price for three platforms is
pretty hard to beat. The edit-time syntax checking has saved me
countless hours in Ruby and Javascript.  I'm also running Steel on
Windows Visual Studio 2005 but the free version does not have
intellisense so who knows.  And of course you have to buy MS VS 2005
(the express free version does not support Steel).

I rarely use the debugger in Komodo but it's there if I need it.  The
interactive Ruby shell in Komodo does not work as well as irb.
I use Vim and bash all the time and I am confident that they do not
constitute an IDE despite arguments to the contrary in this forum.

Bob