From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2007-04-29T11:07:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby training materials suggestions required -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Timothy Hunter wrote: > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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. :) >> > > I said 75 answers, not 75 editors. > > > You said "75 answers, each one advocating a *different* editor or IDE". 75 answers, sure, 75 different editors?? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGM/3raZUb+jwczfoRAtJTAKCLvgfqFerU4Ip5W9KjmhFNvJ2lkgCfWVXh ZkENK/RMrz7EkxtHCiN/kP4= =Kijr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----