From: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@...>
Date: 2009-04-10T10:55:20+09:00
Subject: Re: A trivial formatting question.

On Apr 9, 5:50 pm, Robert Schaaf <rwsch...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi all from a 30-year veteran, but rather a Ruby noob,
>
> I've been looking around for a Ruby IDE, and came across the soon to  
> be released RubyMine.  It looks to be a promising program, with a very  
> nice code reformatter.
>
> One thing irks me:  It doesn't indent the clauses of a case statement,  
> but prints the 'when's flush with the 'case' and 'end' keywords.  This  
> complicates discerning the scope of the statement quickly.  I went  
> back to 'Programming Ruby' and found the same formatting, which I find  
> somewhat barbaric.
>
> My question is, how many of you indent when clauses?  Does it matter  
> to you at all?  Is there a package that prettifies Ruby  code, even if  
> not in an editor,  and is configurable?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Schaaf

something = 2
SciTE = case something
  when 1; 1
  when 2; 4
  else 0
  end
puts SciTE # => 4   # Had to manually ex-dent this line; indents above
were automatic.

I love SciTE because it also executes in a separate pane by simply
pressing F5.  Automatically saves current code before compiling and
executing.  It's color coding is excellent IMHO.

Good luck,
Richard