From: "Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer" <devel@...>
Date: 2009-11-20T08:11:19+09:00
Subject: Anybody interested in a KDevelop-Ruby-plugin?

Hi Ruby-fans!

KDevelop is a great cross-platform-IDE (KDE project, www.kdevelop.org). But 
the Ruby-support is not yet usable.
Maybe here are some developers with C++ or Qt experiences who would be 
interested in changing that.
What does KDevelop provide?
-A basic Ruby-parser
-A Ruby-debugger (has to be ported to KDevelop 4)
-A very simple C++-API (really, writing plugins for KDevelop is very straight-
forward)
-Views for code/class-structure
-Highlighting
-Auto-indentation
-Auto-brace (we would only need a small Ruby-patch)
-Basic completion
-Speed and a great GUI (compared with Eclipse)

What should be implemented?
-Fixed parser
-Integration of parsing results into the "declaration usage viewer" (it 
provides stuff like code-navigation and class/method-tree, you can look at the 
PHP-implementation: there are a lot of great possibilities, for example for 
PHP the type of variables and functions is determined (if possible))
-Semantic code-completion (integration of the parsing-results into the 
highlighter-menu)
-The porting mentioned above
-Small things like documentation, examples, templates, some kind of code-
generation, Qt stuff...

When you have tried the C++ or PHP language support in KDevelop 4, you should 
know, how awesome such features could be.

The tasks could easily be divided. So there is a really good chance to get 
them implemented if there would be some volunteers. (the developers do their 
jobs well but they do not have enough man-power to implement support for all 
the popular languages)

If you are interested: Join us at kdevelop-devel@kdevelop.org and 
#kdevelop@freenode!

Jonathan
(IRC: The_User)