From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-08-13T07:41:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby IDE

James Dinkel wrote:
> This is a nice find.  I downloaded and unzipped 6.1 Ruby/Rails version 
> and it ran just fine on a computer that did not have the JDK.  This 
> makes me really wonder why the installer would not continue without 
> having the JDK installed.  Since I don't have the JDK (just the JRE), I 
> wonder if the extracted Netbeans will eventually run in to problems?  I 
> don't think I'll explore it's usage now, but I would be curious to know.

Yeah, I'm not sure either. The JDK dependency did strike me as a little 
odd, especially since unless you're doing Java compilation there's 
really not that much more in the JDK other than compiler/build tools and 
sources. So I'd be pretty surprised if the standalone NetBeans Ruby IDE 
didn't work just fine without a full JDK present.

It's possible that the JDK dependency is just there because most of the 
NetBeans distributions include Java support. Who knows...

But of course, I always have a JDK present and I'm doing as much Java as 
Ruby, so I wouldn't know what issues you might run into.

- Charlie