From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-04-29T09:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby training materials suggestions required

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Timothy Hunter wrote:
> Regarding your requirement that the book target a specific editor, I
> don't think any such book exists. I suspect publishers would be afraid
> of limiting their sales to such a tiny market! Besides, which editor/IDE
> would you pick? Every "which is the best Ruby IDE?" post here gets 75
> answers, each one advocating a different editor or IDE. (Short answer:
> there is no "best.")
There may be no "best", but there's certainly a rather short list. On a
Mac, the overwhelming favorite appears to be TextMate. On Linux, I think
"vim" is more popular than "emacs", but both are often used. Other
likely candidates are FreeRide, SciTe, Eclipse, Komodo, Sapphire In
Steel, RadRails and KDevelop. The jRuby folks like NetBeans and maybe
jEdit.

That's a bunch but nowhere near 75, and I'll bet you that most Mac
Rubyists would answer TextMate, most Linux Rubyists would answer "vim"
plus "irb", and most Windows users would answer with whatever is bundled
in the One-Click Installer and Instant Rails these days. There are
probably only five serious contenders over all.

I'm guessing Komodo 4.5 will change all that, however. :)

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