From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-04-29T11:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby training materials suggestions required

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
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> Timothy Hunter wrote:
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>> 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.")
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> 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.
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> 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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I said 75 answers, not 75 editors.