From: Chris Gehlker Date: 2002-03-02T03:57:22+09:00 Subject: Re: OT A Question on work styles On 2/28/02 10:52 PM, "Tim Hammerquist" wrote: > Chris Gehlker graced us by uttering: >> On 2/28/02 3:59 PM, "Tim Hammerquist" wrote: >> >>> Chris Gehlker graced us by uttering: >>>> As a Mac baby I just had to step through ruby in GDB *from the command >>>> line* >>>> and it made my head and my fingers hurt. Do you guys using more traditional >>>> *nixen really do that all day or do you have nice X-Windows clicky things? >>> >>> I've no experience with OSX (or really, Macs, since the early 1990's), >>> but running linux, I do most of my experimenting from irb, and my >>> dev cycle takes place inside vim. >>> >>> But yeah, I'd say my experience is closer to the "from the command line" >>> style you mentioned. =) >> >> Inside vim is close enough to "from the command line" for me. It's >> interesting that some people are developing from inside emacs or vim and >> others are using windowing thingees. > > If RubyStudio weren't OSX-specific, I'd take a look at it right now. But > on the whole, coming from a Perl/Python-type background, I just > interface with Ruby the same way I was used to and it works pretty well. RubioStudio is really coming along. I'm about finished with auto formatting and getting it to scroll back to the line where Ruby thinks there was an error. When I get that finished, it's time to think seriously about porting to GnuStep. I haven't actually done that with a Cocoa program but there are people who claim it's not that hard. -- Conversation, n. A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor. -Ambrose Bierce