From: Dejan Dimic <dejan.dimic@...>
Date: 2007-12-21T18:10:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Good Ruby IDE for Debian Linux?

On Dec 21, 5:41 am, Stephen Schor <beholdthepa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> ruby-debug (http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-debug/) does the bulk of what
> you'd expect in
> a debugger.  (step into, step over, watch...etc)
>
> Some other nice walk-throughs include:
>  http://www.datanoise.com/articles/2006/07/12/tutorial-on-ruby-debug
>  http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/rdebug/(cheatsheet)
>
> -Stephen
>
> On Dec 20, 2007 11:24 PM, Nei Kai <mailxien...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I, too, don't think it's important to use IDE to edit/input ruby code,
> > vim is good enough.
> > But how do you guys debug ruby code?  log/puts, or the native debug
> > option of ruby command?
> > Could anybody recommend some  debugger  for  vim user?
>
> > Best  regards.
> > ning
>
> > 2007/12/21, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <zn...@cesmail.net>:
>
> > > 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. :)

One thing that is done marvelously in Ruby and Ruby on Rails is that
all development can be comfortable done using text editor and command
prompt.
That is the most desirable way of development.

IDE could have some advantages specially in debugging but it is much
better to have a good text editor then an IDE. We definitely sped most
of time in text editor.

You should be prepared to ad hock react on production server when
things get wrong without a flourishing IDE.