From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T13:12:10+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 :)

Well ... I like Komodo. In general, I don't think single-person projects 
need an IDE, nor do I think pair programmers who are well synchronized 
in thinking do. A more heterogeneous project team, on the other hand, 
has a *lot* to gain by using a *common* IDE and set of coding standards.

That said, an awful lot of Rubyists are wedded to MacOS and TextMate. :)