From: "Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@...>
Date: 2008-05-20T05:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: IDE and FAQ?

Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> I'm going to put in another plug for NetBeans.  I've been using it for
> ruby coding since the release candidates for 6.x.  Mostly I use it in
> linux, occasional on OSX, and I used to use it a ton on my windows box
> at work.  It's very consistent across platforms, and since leaving the
> rc stage, very stable.  The big plus for me over eclipse, is the
> straightforward subversion and cvs support.
> 
> Eclipse is supposed to work across all platforms also.  Though I've
> never tried it on OSX, one of my old profs uses it in an OSX lab for
> his java programming classes.  The UI is significantly faster than
> NetBeans, if you're using a slow machine.  The downside is that comes
> across as fragile, ruby support is installed as a plugin, and using
> subversion and cvs required jumping through several hoops.

For me, on Linux, this last part is easy: CVS support comes with Eclipse 
and Subversion support comes by installing the subclipse RPM or grabbing 
that plugin. But, I've not had any luck getting a Ruby plugin for 
Eclipsie. The one I saw was RDT and that's now a commercial product. :-/

> Long long ago, there used to be an ide written in ruby, using fox gui
> toolkit called FreeRide.  It was slick & cool, but crashed hourly.  I
> miss it, and wonder if it's gotten it's life together enough not to
> crash... maybe worth checking out.

Downloaded it recently. It wouldn't even start. Tried it on both 
platforms with the same results. :(

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