[#277137] executing VIM on a remote machine? — "Gian Holland" <gianmh@...>

Is is possible with ruby to execute vim on a remote machine to edit a file?

11 messages 2007/11/01

[#277159] Who required that!? — Trans <transfire@...>

Is there any way to ask a file what other file require/load 'd it? I

15 messages 2007/11/02
[#277180] Re: Who required that!? — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...> 2007/11/02

[#277359] Unicode illegal characters problem — "Axel Etzold" <AEtzold@...>

Dear all,

16 messages 2007/11/03

[#277377] dragons and factorials (keyboard input) — Thufir <hawat.thufir@...>

I'm getting keyboard input successfully, but I'm getting a string. I

13 messages 2007/11/03

[#277385] x=[]; x[:bla][:some_key] does not work? — Joshua Muheim <forum@...>

Hi all

24 messages 2007/11/03

[#277517] Reading a class-file and calling it at runtime. — Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@...>

I'm trying to read-in a folder full of "plug-ins" and call each of them,

19 messages 2007/11/05
[#277534] Re: [n00b] Reading a class-file and calling it at runtime. — "Sean O'Halpin" <sean.ohalpin@...> 2007/11/05

On 11/5/07, Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@your-pants.playnaked.com> wrote:

[#277579] Re: Reading a class-file and calling it at runtime. — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...> 2007/11/05

Sean O'halpin wrote:

[#277615] Faking the refering page with Mechanize — Ehud Rosenberg <ehudros@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2007/11/06
[#277617] Re: Faking the refering page with Mechanize — Konrad Meyer <konrad@...> 2007/11/06

Quoth Ehud Rosenberg:

[#277719] Language Popularity - PHP vs Ruby? — Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>

Hi,

26 messages 2007/11/06
[#277773] Re: Language Popularity - PHP vs Ruby? — Ilan Berci <coder68@...> 2007/11/06

Marc Heiler wrote:

[#277881] Re: Language Popularity - PHP vs Ruby? — Alex Young <alex@...> 2007/11/07

Ilan Berci wrote:

[#277785] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — Isaac Gouy <igouy2@...>

Quoting Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter / sun.com>:

23 messages 2007/11/06
[#277789] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2007/11/06

[#278300] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...> 2007/11/09

[#278343] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/11/10

On 11/9/07, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:

[#278385] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2007/11/10

Rick DeNatale wrote:

[#278397] Re: JRuby performance questions answered — Sean Surname <x3qh85202@...> 2007/11/10

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

[#277797] Is there a "||" that treats "" also as false? — Joshua Muheim <forum@...>

Hi all

15 messages 2007/11/07

[#277900] a problem related string(250 score) — Johnson Wang <99100@163.com>

How to solve this problem in Ruby????

13 messages 2007/11/07

[#277931] Windows: Scheduled Ruby script won't run — bdezonia@...

Hello all,

12 messages 2007/11/07

[#277944] how to delete array — Surjit Nameirakpam <surjit.meitei@...>

Problem

21 messages 2007/11/07
[#277952] Re: how to delete array — "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@...> 2007/11/07

On Nov 7, 2007 10:02 PM, Surjit Nameirakpam <surjit.meitei@gmail.com> wrote:

[#277954] Re: how to delete array — Surjit Nameirakpam <surjit.meitei@...> 2007/11/07

My business logic doesn't help me find which values i have to delete but

[#277955] Re: how to delete array — Surjit Nameirakpam <surjit.meitei@...> 2007/11/07

Surjit Nameirakpam wrote:

[#277980] alternate to case; generating a list of sub-classes — Thufir <hawat.thufir@...>

The below uses pseudo-random number generation to populate an array

11 messages 2007/11/07

[#278070] local variables, eval, and parsing — furtive.clown@...

17 messages 2007/11/08
[#278076] Re: local variables, eval, and parsing — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/08

val = 44

[#278089] Re: local variables, eval, and parsing — Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...> 2007/11/08

On Thursday 08 November 2007 11:25 am, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278099] Re: local variables, eval, and parsing — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/08

On Nov 8, 1:10 pm, Randy Kramer <rhkra...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#278130] Re: local variables, eval, and parsing — Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...> 2007/11/08

On Thursday 08 November 2007 01:45 pm, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278120] 'Class.inherited' v. 'inherited' syntax inside Class — 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>

How come when you redefine the inherited method in Class, you don't use

12 messages 2007/11/08

[#278171] Ruby/Fastcgi going into uninterruptible after random periods of time — "nate" <ruby@...>

Hello there -

11 messages 2007/11/09

[#278226] Current Quizmaster Retiring — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

When I started the Ruby Quiz project, I made some off-hand comment =20

28 messages 2007/11/09

[#278271] enterprise ruby — Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>

I am thinking of doing a 'side by side' distro of Ruby that includes the

50 messages 2007/11/09
[#278276] Re: enterprise ruby — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2007/11/09

On 09.11.2007 21:28, Roger Pack wrote:

[#278305] Re: enterprise ruby — Lionel Bouton <lionel-subscription@...> 2007/11/10

Robert Klemme wrote the following on 09.11.2007 22:05 :

[#278415] Re: enterprise ruby — Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...> 2007/11/11

Lionel Bouton wrote:

[#278592] Re: enterprise ruby — Jay Levitt <jay+news@...> 2007/11/12

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:32:14 -0500, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

[#278616] Re: enterprise ruby — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2007/11/12

Jay Levitt wrote:

[#278310] equivalent injecting implementations? — Trans <transfire@...>

Are these strictly equivalent? I get the feeling no, but I haven't

14 messages 2007/11/10
[#278344] Re: equivalent injecting implementations? — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/11/10

On 11/9/07, Trans <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

[#278354] The Man or Boy Recursion Test — Werner <wdahn@...>

Hello,

17 messages 2007/11/10
[#278392] Re: The Man or Boy Recursion Test — Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...> 2007/11/10

Werner wrote:

[#278410] Re: The Man or Boy Recursion Test — Lloyd Linklater <lloyd@2live4.com> 2007/11/10

Tim Hunter wrote:

[#278453] Re: The Man or Boy Recursion Test — Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...> 2007/11/11

Lloyd Linklater wrote:

[#278458] Re: The Man or Boy Recursion Test — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/11/11

On Nov 11, 2007 9:21 AM, Tim Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:

[#278413] ruby-1.8.6-p111 build on osx 10.5.0 fails; ok on 10.4.10. bug or config? — snowcrash+rubytalk <schneecrash+rubytalk@...>

hi,

11 messages 2007/11/11
[#278447] Re: ruby-1.8.6-p111 build on osx 10.5.0 fails; ok on 10.4.10. bug or config? — "Laurent Sansonetti" <laurent.sansonetti@...> 2007/11/11

On Nov 11, 2007 1:27 AM, snowcrash+rubytalk

[#278539] comp.lang.fortran challenge — Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>

Having Ruby fun with the comp.lang.fortran folks:

14 messages 2007/11/12

[#278575] does Ruby has method properties — Thilina Buddhika <thilinamb@...>

In java script it is possible to something like this,

16 messages 2007/11/12

[#278643] alias_method :tap, :affect — Josh Susser <josh@...>

46 messages 2007/11/12
[#278652] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007 12:58 PM, Josh Susser <josh@hasmanythrough.com> wrote:

[#278657] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

[#278663] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — "Martin DeMello" <martindemello@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007 11:10 AM, <furtive.clown@gmail.com> wrote:

[#278675] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2:31 pm, Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#278678] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007, at 2:40 PM, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278685] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 3:55 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>

[#278688] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007, at 3:25 PM, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278691] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 4:37 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>

[#278692] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:20 PM, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278693] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 5:25 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>

[#278695] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:35 PM, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278705] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

>

[#278706] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:30 PM, furtive.clown@gmail.com wrote:

[#278708] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/12

On Nov 12, 6:39 pm, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>

[#278710] Re: alias_method :tap, :affect — Raul Parolari <raulparolari@...> 2007/11/13

unknown wrote:

[#278742] Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — furtive.clown@...

The idea of Object#tap is to insert a "listener" (like tapping a phone

36 messages 2007/11/13
[#278744] Re: Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/13

[#278853] Re: Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...> 2007/11/13

[#278864] Re: Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/13

Ara,

[#278884] Re: Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — -a <ara.t.howard@...> 2007/11/13

[#278981] Re: Yielding an object and caring about the result: the cousin of Object#tap — furtive.clown@... 2007/11/14

Let's compare them again. I changed some variable names which will

[#278840] Why are so many people confused about "Enterprise" software? — "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschmitt@...>

Really, why are so many people confused about "Enterprise" software,

10 messages 2007/11/13

[#278871] Ordered Hash Usefulness — "Devi Web Development" <devi.webmaster@...>

On Nov 12, 2007 7:56 AM, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

19 messages 2007/11/13

[#278878] recursion with blocks — Mike Perham <mperham@...>

I have a tree structure where I want to walk the structure and find a

13 messages 2007/11/13

[#278928] rails incredibly slow (update) — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>

After 24 minutes of waiting, the Welcome Aboard window came up in my

75 messages 2007/11/14
[#278936] Re: rails incredibly slow (update) — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...> 2007/11/14

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:22:29 -0500, Mohit Sindhwani

[#279008] ruby incredibly slow (update 2) — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...> 2007/11/14

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:42:17 -0500, Tanner Burson

[#279418] Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2) — Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...> 2007/11/17

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:51:51 -0500, Bob Hutchison <hutch@recursive.ca>

[#279710] Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2) — Bob Hutchison <hutch@...> 2007/11/19

[#279121] webrick alternative — Michael Conrad <list-ruby@...>

Hi,

20 messages 2007/11/15

[#279241] Alternative Ruby grammar — Markus Liedl <m.liedl@...>

I have spent the last months to write an alternative Ruby grammar now

23 messages 2007/11/16

[#279263] meta-class subclass relationships — Greg Weeks <greg.weeks@...>

Ruby exposes its singleton meta-classes, eg:

16 messages 2007/11/16
[#279288] Re: meta-class subclass relationships — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2007/11/16

Hi --

[#279347] Goedel (#147) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

21 messages 2007/11/16

[#279360] "instance_eval" (eg, sent to a class object) — Greg Weeks <greg.weeks@...>

I've poked around, but I don't get instance_eval at all.

11 messages 2007/11/16

[#279419] Composition: Build objects from other objects — Thufir <hawat.thufir@...>

<http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2001/jw-0608-java101.html> has

22 messages 2007/11/17

[#279539] Five Top programming Languages — bicomplex@...

Five Top programming Languages

15 messages 2007/11/18

[#279564] GUI and ruby — ulazar <ulazar@...>

I would like to create an interface GUI with ruby. What I have to use? I

17 messages 2007/11/18

[#279642] Open-ended ranges? — Clifford Heath <no@...>

Folk,

21 messages 2007/11/19

[#279670] False positives in editing data — RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>

Hi All,

39 messages 2007/11/19

[#279671] Is there an equivalent in irb to command: history in bash? — Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@...>

Is there an equivalent in irb to the command history in bash?

11 messages 2007/11/19
[#279675] Re: Is there an equivalent in irb to command: history in bash? — Chris Shea <cmshea@...> 2007/11/19

On Nov 18, 10:44 pm, Stephen Bannasch <stephen.banna...@deanbrook.org>

[#279738] Read last line of a file — Shuaib Zahda <shuaib.zahda@...>

Hi all

17 messages 2007/11/19
[#279748] Re: Read last line of a file — Xavier Noria <fxn@...> 2007/11/19

On Nov 19, 2007, at 3:38 PM, Shuaib Zahda wrote:

[#279822] RubyGems 0.9.5 — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>

RubyGems 0.9.5 adds several new features and fixes several bugs.

56 messages 2007/11/20
[#279841] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...> 2007/11/20

I got caught by some "tired at the end of the day" stupidity...

[#279903] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denatale@...> 2007/11/20

On Nov 20, 2007 12:53 AM, Michael Greenly <mgreenly@gmail.com> wrote:

[#279907] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...> 2007/11/20

Rick Denatale wrote:

[#279921] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2007/11/20

Michael Greenly wrote:

[#279928] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/11/20

On 11/20/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:

[#279935] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — Michael Greenly <mgreenly@...> 2007/11/20

Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#280023] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2007/11/20

On Nov 20, 2007, at 08:18 , Michael Greenly wrote:

[#280086] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...> 2007/11/21

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 08:09:18AM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote:

[#280119] Re: RubyGems 0.9.5 — "Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@...> 2007/11/21

On 11/21/07, Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@polytechnique.org> wrote:

[#279870] eigenvalues, eigenvectors in Ruby ??? — unbewusst.sein@... (Une B騅ue)

40 messages 2007/11/20

[#279877] read, write, seek method in a ring buffer class — Martin Durai <martin@...>

Could any body help me with creating a ring buffer class using a string.

12 messages 2007/11/20

[#279887] is there an nicer way for this expression? — Remco Hh <remco@...>

hi,

18 messages 2007/11/20

[#279896] Choosing a scripting language for scientific programming — deltaquattro <deltaquattro@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2007/11/20

[#279940] AJAX without Rails — Miki Vz <mikisvaz@...>

Hi, I'm pretty new to Ajax.

24 messages 2007/11/20
[#279953] Re: AJAX without Rails — Miki Vz <mikisvaz@...> 2007/11/20

Actually, I'm not sure I'm using eruby, I'm using mod_ruby and

[#279961] Re: AJAX without Rails — Deepak Vohra <dvohra09@...> 2007/11/20

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/01/15/ajax_rails_tutorial/

[#279963] Re: AJAX without Rails — Miki Vz <mikisvaz@...> 2007/11/20

Isn't this precisely a rails tutorial? I'm trying not to use rails,

[#279967] Re: AJAX without Rails — Deepak Vohra <dvohra09@...> 2007/11/20

Ruby on Rails is the only Ajax framework for Ruby.

[#279984] Packet : A Pure Ruby Library for Event Driven Network Programming — hemant <gethemant@...>

Hi Folks,

11 messages 2007/11/20

[#280005] Ruby Tool Survey — Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@...>

I'm running a survey to find out what tools Ruby and Rails people

24 messages 2007/11/20

[#280091] porting java methods to ruby — Martin Durai <martin@...>

could any one help me out to solve this.

19 messages 2007/11/21

[#280232] How to give depth to arrays? — Chris Morales <primo.tertio@...>

Hi,

12 messages 2007/11/22

[#280316] Checking whether a string is a number in disguise? — Peter Bunyan <peter.bunyan@...>

I'm working on an RPN calculator (don't ask why...) and I'm having

10 messages 2007/11/22

[#280521] Iterating through class names using a block — Ge Bro <boomstik@...>

Hey all,

14 messages 2007/11/24

[#280542] Convert words to numbers and back? — Jordon Bedwell <jordon@...>

I was wondering if somebody could give me some insight and help on how

10 messages 2007/11/24

[#280645] Moving files matching Regex — Mark Woodward <markonlinux@...>

Hi all,

16 messages 2007/11/25

[#280664] specify start postion of Regexp matching — makoto kuwata <kwa@...>

Hi, all.

16 messages 2007/11/25

[#280670] Creating a rubygem - a story and help request — Phrogz <phrogz@...>

The Story

11 messages 2007/11/25

[#280708] European Ruby Conference 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic? — Karel Minařík <karel.minarik@...>

Hi all,

13 messages 2007/11/25

[#280818] Removing duplicates and substrings from an array — "Sam Larbi" <slarbi@...>

I've got an array of strings, say like:

12 messages 2007/11/26

[#280901] Most elegant way to do this? — rbysamppi@...

Are there any more elegant, concise, pithy, and more Rubyish ways of

31 messages 2007/11/27

[#280905] Bizarre Floating point errors in Ruby? Serious bug? — space.ship.traveller@...

Hi,

16 messages 2007/11/27

[#280921] FEATURE SUGGESTION: Accept default value for to_f and to_i — Mr Magpie <gazmcgheesubs@...>

I suggest that to_i() and to_f() have an optional parameter added with

13 messages 2007/11/27

[#280923] Ruby on OLPC?? — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>

I've been seriously considering the One Laptop Per Child Give One Get

25 messages 2007/11/27

[#280947] Re: "Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't)" — Raul Parolari <raulparolari@...>

Trollen Lord wrote:

36 messages 2007/11/27
[#281035] Re: "Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't)" — MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...> 2007/11/27

On Nov 27, 11:42 am, Trollen Lord <trollenl...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#281081] Re: "Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't)" — MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...> 2007/11/27

On Nov 27, 3:24 pm, Trollen Lord <trollenl...@gmail.com> wrote:

[#281012] Accessing a file server with ruby — Anthony <improvcornartist@...>

This seems like it should be a simple solution, but I don't know

15 messages 2007/11/27

[#281157] Equivalent for unix "read" command in rake tasks? — Rob Lucas <roblucas@...>

Hi,

10 messages 2007/11/28

[#281174] Ruby needs continuations... — "Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality" <ihatespam@...>

Warning: I don't really know what I'm talking about so if I make any

26 messages 2007/11/28

[#281224] Im trying to make Thumbnail pics -- any suggestions? — wiz_pendases@...

Im trying to make Thumbnail pics -- any suggestions? (dont know wher

10 messages 2007/11/28

[#281273] Custom Protocol — thefed <fedzor@...>

I understand that I've asked a similar question that of custom packets.

16 messages 2007/11/28

[#281295] Creating Databases in Ruby — "Will Mueller" <will.liljon@...>

Hello All,

12 messages 2007/11/29

[#281331] Hash Sorting — Nathan Viswa <nathanv@...>

Can not understand how the block after sort works! Need help. thanks.

25 messages 2007/11/29

[#281385] Negate a character sequence in a regular expression? — crm_114@...

For the following string:

12 messages 2007/11/29

[#281432] when 1.9.0 will be released? — sayoyo Sayoyo <sayoyo@...>

Hi, does someone know when the 1.9.0 will be released?

17 messages 2007/11/30

[#281478] Postfix to Infix (#148) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

45 messages 2007/11/30

[#281519] Unicode in Regex — Greg Willits <lists@...>

This is mostly a Ruby thing, and partly a Rails thing.

33 messages 2007/11/30

Would ruby be easy to code in using voice recognition?

From: Pleos <azimux@...>
Date: 2007-11-30 04:30:06 UTC
List: ruby-talk #281431
I was interested in giving ruby a try.  I have been coding for years
in java and C# and was interested in something new.

One problem though is that I code by voice.  I generally accomplish
this by using macros to create variable names and such.  But a huge
part of being able to code is the auto completion features associated
with IDE's for those languages.  For example, I can say "dot five down
press enter key" to select a method without using any macros.  The
problem with using macros is I cannot correct the system when it does
something wrong.  So if I say "class name this is a class" it will
output ThisIsAClass but if it misunderstands me and types out, say,
TheseIsAClass, I cannot correct it by saying "correct that" since the
macro system is external to the voice recognition software.  Normally
I can use single English word identifier names in a lot of contexts
but usually not for method names.  This makes auto completion quite
important to me.  The other alternative is adding method names to the
voice-recognition vocabulary, but this really interrupts your workflow
and makes coding less fun.

I searched around a little bit and couldn't find environments that
could support that for ruby.  I understand it is more complicated
given it is not statically typed, but I though I would be able to find
at least something.

So my question is, does anybody know of a reasonable way to get at
least some amount of auto completion while developing ruby code?  Or,
does anybody have any recommendations for other languages that would
be fun to try and do have such a feature?

For that last one, I should specify why I wanted to move away from
Java/C#

For Java, I just kept getting annoyed that certain features weren't
available or that things were so annoying to code.  Features that I am
shocked haven't been added are verbatim strings.  I use lots of
regular expressions and it is incredibly annoying to have to unescape/
escape my expressions to use them in other places.  It's also annoying
to have to un-escape it in your head when you are reading the code
looking for bugs.  As for annoyances during development, I wrote
http://www.azimux.com using struts a few years ago.  At the time this
was the most popular way of building Java-based Web applications.  I
absolutely HATED working with this framework.  I enjoyed writing the
backend code of the game, but the web interface was like stabbing
yourself in the face repeatedly.  I got sick of putting redundant
information in various Java files and XML files.  This completely
interrupts my workflow and makes coding not fun.  Also, deployment and
testing was so slow that it wasted a lot of my time.  I looked into
coding in JSF for some new projects and still felt like there were
little problems I didn't want to deal with.  I looked in the
frameworks like Seam and they had a lot of cool features but still
things I didn't feel like doing.

C# on the other hand, I actually like quite a bit.  I wrote a few
applications for my last job in C# and for windows applications and
backend libraries it was pretty fun to code in, but again, I didn't
like the way of doing web work.  I didn't like the way ASP.NET
functioned.  Infact, I think I like ASP.NET less than I like JSF (at
least the way it's supposed to be used.)  One thing I was thinking of
doing and am still considering is using the spring.NET framework.
This would allow me to use ASP.NET in a way that would be more
enjoyable.  The other option would be to wait for the Microsoft MVC to
come out and see if that would work...

BUT I hate using windows as a server.   I much prefer to use Linux as
my servers.  Ever since I had to start coding by voice (due to a
neuromuscular disease), I had to use windows for development because
there are no decent voice-recognition applications for Linux.  This
was the main reason I rewrote my game in Java, because of the ease of
being able to develop on one platform and deploy to another.
Originally my game was written in PHP with a C++ backend (PHP was
pretty popular at the time.)  I HATED working in PHP, which makes me
worried that I would dislike ruby, though the differences make me
think I might find ruby quite fun.  To be fair, that was php3.  C++
was fun to work on in the backend, but I feel that it is unnecessarily
complex and so my C++ days are probably done.  Also, rewriting classes
in both C++ and PHP so that the backend code could pass values to the
PHP code was a huge pain in the ass.

At anyrate, that should be enough information for you to recommend me
an IDE to use with ruby or a  new language to play around with.   My
primary concerns are:

1.  Having fun while coding
2.  Being able to code somewhat productively using my voice for 80% or
more of the code.

and some keys about how I'm used to coding are:

1.  Java annoys me but I find C# somewhat pleasant.  Though, with C#,
I don't like using windows as a server, Mono is full of bugs and/or
missing features (one of the bugs I reported to the mono project was
so trivial that the fact it wasn't reported made me think nobody is
using it in a serious manner.)  I also do not like the ASP.NET way of
doing things and other frameworks for C# seem a little complicated and/
or still mostly under development.   There's also fewer interesting
projects going on in the open-source C# community (this is an area
that java wins is that there's more interesting projects going on
using it.)
2.  I use autocompletion heavily to reduce the amount I need to type
and time I have to spend training my voice recognition.  When I spend
time training and correcting voice typos in the middle of solving a
problem when I'm on a roll makes me want to kill my computer.

Thanks for any advice you may have!

Miles

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