From: Gabriel Horner Date: 2010-07-30T17:19:52+09:00 Subject: Re: interactive ruby development Seshu Yamajala wrote: > As someone who has used lisp, emacs, and slime in the past, I get > incredible frustrated with having to write ruby code. I do not find the > language to be that bad, but the development environments just don't > compare. > > My current setup is emacs, ruby-mode, and inf-ruby. I wish inf-ruby did > more. It would be nice if irb tab completion worked in inf-ruby, and if > this could somehow be piped to emacs and ruby-mode to get real tab > completion in emacs. > > Does anyone have some ideas about how to go about doing this? > > I think one way might be to adapt slime to ruby. As far as I know, this > involves writing a swank like backend for ruby, and making some changes > to the emacs frontend. You may want to try inf-ruby-bond(http://github.com/pd/inf-ruby-bond) which is based on bond( http://github.com/cldwalker/bond) a much improved version of irb's completion. I don't use emacs so I can't vouch for inf-ruby-bond but I did write bond. Gabriel -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.