From: "Hal E. Fulton" Date: 2002-02-12T04:40:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby browser similar to Smalltalk browsers? ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Clarke" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby,comp.lang.smalltalk To: "ruby-talk ML" ; Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 1:30 PM Subject: Ruby browser similar to Smalltalk browsers? > This quote on amazon.com from an interview of some Ruby authours caught > my attention: > > 'In late 2001, someone will release a Ruby browser similar to VisualAge > and the Smalltalk browsers.' > > Is there any news on this feature or release? Hmm. I'm not sure what was being referred to there. There are some existing browsers (check the archive at www.ruby-lang.org)... my impression is that most of these are rather rudimentary or proof-of-concept. (That's not a flame, and may not even be accurate.) I agree with you that good tools make a world of difference. My money at the moment is on the FreeRIDE project (www.rubyide.org), spearheaded by Curt Hibbs. There is already some code (much of it written by Rich Kilmer, who codes like the wind) but at present it is even more alpha-ware than any of the others, I think. One nice thing about this project is that it has so many programmers that they can't all be lazy at once. As for me, I haven't yet contributed a single line of code... Cheers, Hal Fulton