From: Neil Hodgson <nhodgson@...>
Date: 2001-12-19T23:46:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28919] Re: [Announce] RIDE (Ruby IDE) and FreeRIDE merge -- a call for ideas and help

Curt Hibbs:

> We want this to be a Ruby community effort, and we want the FreeRIDE to
> serve the real needs of the Ruby developer. Feel free to include any ideas
> you have -- even the far-out ones. Later on we will sort, prioritize, and
> publish an expected feature set for the first major release.

   One of the cooler refactoring tools possible in an IDE is to take a
segment of code and turn it into a method. Simple implementations just
physically move the code and put in place holders for arguments but a more
complete implementation can examine the segment for those variables that
need to be passed into and returned from the method and place these in the
argument list and return value. The inverse, expanding a method, is simpler.
Extra points for examining the rest of the project for identical segments
(at a parse tree level, ignoring variable names and comments etc.) and
offering to replace these other occurrences.

   Neil