From: Richard Conroy Date: 2012-02-06T22:13:17+09:00 Subject: Re: View/lookup referenced source file --0016e6d460a6d61dbc04b84b6ca6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Dara kok wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder what would an experience ruby developer does when working a > project involving referencing to various ruby files? > > From a java background, I find it convenient to lookup an imported > source file from within the current file i'm working on. I wonder what > would be the best way to achieve the same thing in Ruby? > > Why i'm asking this is because I've read that many ruby hobbyists prefer > a normal text editor over a sophisticated one such as eclipse > > I think it is more accurate to say that Rubists both professional and hobby, prefer a *sophisticated* text editor, such as Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text or Textmate (or any Textmate clone like Redcar). It is typical for any of these Editors to have highly sophisticated Search capability - AckMate in TextMate is fabulous. Note that relationships between source files is quite complex in Ruby development. It is not isolated to just the files that you specifically require, so search features that are isolated to only your requires are not especially useful. In terms of IDE support, Netbeans had really good heuristic auto complete and method lookup. I cant speak for Redmine, but it has a lot of fans also for reasons such as that. -- http://richardconroy.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/RichardConroy --0016e6d460a6d61dbc04b84b6ca6--