From: Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@...>
Date: 2010-05-03T13:27:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Main working window for Ruby is DOS?

On May 2, 2010, at 11:22 PM, Kaye Ng wrote:

> Kaye Ng wrote:
>> I know nothing about programming and am not a techy person, so please
>> excuse the terms I'm using.
>> 
>> I just downloaded Ruby.  I expected an environment like Visual BASIC
>> where there's a tool bar on the left side and you can just click a
>> textbox, label, or a command button and it would appear on a Form.
>> Isn't Ruby like that?
>> 
>> Is it just a DOS window and nothing else?  I know it's a stupid
>> question, sorry.  But like I said, I know nothing.
>> 
>> Thanks guys.
> 
> I think what I'm trying to say is does it have an IDE? integrated 
> development environment

Here are a couple I found with a quick google search. I use TextMate for my own work, but it doesn't have all of the visual basic pointy-clicky stuff like some of these others.

I haven't used any of these.

http://www.aptana.com/

http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/index.html

http://netbeans.org/features/ruby/index.html

http://redcareditor.com/

Hopefully someone else will chime in who has done some work with these IDEs.

cr