From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-12-08T20:24:15+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27916] Re: Ruby IDE?? What about using Eclipse??

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Ross Shaw wrote:

> Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) is an open extensible IDE (written in Java) that
> IBM has open sourced and is using as the IDE framework for all their future
> tooling (Websphere, XML, MQSI etc). It also has some other heavy backers
> behind it (Borland, Rational, RedHat, SuSE etc).
> 
> Now I know its written in Java and not Ruby but is anyone interested in
> writing a Ruby tool plugin for Eclipse. It appears to have some really cool
> features built in (CVS integration for instance) so a lot of work would
> already be done. There is a Java editor implementation that could probably
> be used as a starting point for a Ruby editor.
> 
> Is this doable?
> 
Probably, its been mentioned 3-4 time on the list the last month. I
suggest you check the archives (www.ruby-talk.com) and get in contact with
the people who has proposed such a project. I'd very much like to see a
good Ruby IDE (preferably fully scriptable/extendable in Ruby; check out
RuEdit on this aspect) and Eclipse sounds interesting (the company behind
it is rumoured to be a very cool OO/Smalltalk/Java player now owned by
IBM) but unfortunately I have enough Ruby projects already. But please go
ahead!

Would you be helped by a java2ruby translator? I've been thinking of doing
one as part of the Rockit parser generator. It wouldn't be perfect but
simplify porting Java code to Ruby (ie. translate and then go over
manually to Rubyify and fix things that couldn't be translated etc). Not
sure when I'll get time for this though.

Regards,

Robert