From: Praveen Ray Date: 2007-12-21T07:40:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Good Ruby IDE for Debian Linux? Marc Heiler wrote:

I'm wondering what IDEs are out there for Ruby in the Linux world?
Anyone want to make some recommendations?


I think you might well survive without any IDE for Ruby. It's not as if
you absolutely need a complicated IDE - ruby done right is terse and
readable.
IDEs have some advantages but I found them all to have disadvantages,
if only the level of complexity you need to understand with
them - i remember when i first was presented to do a "projects" file
with netbeans :)

I second that..not to denounce IDEs..but I think IDEs will always be limited in dynamic languages world for the simple reason
that these languages are much harder to parse and also in absence of type info, it's equally hard to do intellisense 100% - unlike in
Java etc.
Reliable Intellisense is probably the biggest reason I'd choose an IDE over emacs/vi. Pabbrev Mode in Emacs does 90% of code completions and
it doesn't rely on any type information.