From: marc Date: 2009-07-21T01:04:01+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby IDE's Tom Cloyd wrote: > Sunil Kumar wrote: >> Hi This is sunil.. >> i am new to ruby technology... >> can anyone tel which IDE is good for running ruby programs.... >> > May I recommend that you learn to run it from the command line. It's not > at all hard. > > I've done several IDE's, and aside from the need to learn them, and > their bugs, they have the additional disadvantage of keeping you from > seeing what you're really doing. No they don't! If anything, they enhance your understanding. Once you know how to drive the things, they offer you a ton of functionality that is far harder to accomplish via the CLI. I use the CLI too, and I'm a big user of gvim, but for project work, it's simply nuts not to use an IDE. > I'm an absolute amateur with Ruby, and always will be, I now run from > the command line, and use the ruby-debug gem (not yet available in ruby > 1.9), and am completely pleased with what I can do. I would never go > back to an IDE. I simply don't see any advantage at all. Might I suggest that when you have a lot more experience, and spend more time coding, then the advantages will become very clear. -- Best, Marc "Change requires small steps."