From: Robert Dober Date: 2009-07-21T02:32:23+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby IDE's On 7/20/09, marc wrote: > Tom Cloyd wrote: > > 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. Well I am nuts then, but that's a well known fact anyway;). However I do not want to argue that IDEs do not have their merits, but maybe it is worth mentioning that we are hinting a beginner who wants to learn Ruby. > >> 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. So clear that you are assuming we know them? Cheers Robert -- Toutes les grandes personnes ont d’abord été des enfants, mais peu d’entre elles s’en souviennent. All adults have been children first, but not many remember. [Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]