From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2011-04-14T14:07:32+09:00
Subject: Re: so, who's writing a dedicated ruby ide?

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 01:58:25PM +0900, Vincent Manis wrote:
> On 2011-04-13, at 20:10, Chad Perrin wrote, regarding my comments about
> offline TryRuby and a text editor:
> >
> > Include interactive_editor with a default editor on the system and it
> > suddenly has a text editor -- without having to bundle the text
> > editor with the Ruby package.  Even better, because the text editor
> > is not tied to the IDE except by way of interactive_editor, the user
> > can swap out the default editor for another.
>=20
> Is this something a newbie can understand and use effectively? (That's
> not a rhetorical question, I really don't know what the answer might
> be.)=20

I think that, if it's set up automatically, it'll be easier for the
newbie to grasp than the concept of a REPL itself.  It's also easily
ignorable if the user just wants to play around in the REPL without an
editor.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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