From: Kyle Schmitt Date: 2008-05-20T06:01:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Q: IDE and FAQ? Darryl, I'm glad to hear they got a little better with the SVN support. I recall some serious headaches with it. Shame RDT isn't in good shape now. FreeRide is awfully sad. It was a lovely idea of an ultra-minimalist ide. You could also try arcadia, but I don't belive it's very mature yet. --Kyle On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > 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. :( > > -- > Darryl L. Pierce > http://mcpierce.multiply.com/ > "Bury me next to my wife. Nothing too fancy, though..." - Ulysses S. Grant > ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** > >