From: Huw Collingbourne <huw@...>
Date: 2007-04-14T18:25:09+09:00
Subject: Re: What is your favourite IDE?


"Eric Promislow" <eric.promislow@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1176511295.211798.234170@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> As for the code-completion, I haven't been able to check out
> Sapphire yet.  We got out of the Visual Studio plug-in
> game a couple of years ago (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?
> sid=05/12/15/2112237),

Yes, we noticed that :-)

> and I haven't bothered to install VS 2005 since then.  Full
> code-completion is tough, but we try with the same kind of
> on-the-fly code analysis Huw was talking about.  I have to
> admit that the VS API was designed to deliver results very
> quickly in response to code changes.
>

As I said before, Komodo's Ruby code completion is the best I've come across 
(other than ours). I am an admirer of Komodo (see my review here: 
http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Komodo-IDE-4) and it is my IDE of choice when 
not using Visual Studio. It turns out that, in spite of some overlap, Komodo 
and Ruby In Steel are not at all the same types of product. Komodo is 
multi-language and multi-platform; Ruby In Steel is one language (Ruby) and 
one-platform (Visual Studio). In spite of requests from some people to 
'break out' of Visual Studio, this is something we won't be doing. We are 
completely focussed on Ruby and Visual Studio.

So far, we have had two main goals: 1) to have the best Ruby IntelliSense 
and 2) to have the fastest Ruby debugger. To the best of my knowledge, we 
can claim success in both these areas.

But in terms of the breadth of programming features for dynamic languages in 
general, we are not in competition with ActiveState. Naturally  I hope that 
Visual Studio users programming Ruby will use Ruby In Steel. But if you 
aren't using VS or if you want to program on other platforms and in other 
languages, I would recommend that you use Komodo.

best wishes
Huw Collingbourne

http://www.sapphiresteel.com
Ruby Programming In Visual Studio 2005