From: Adam Williams <awilliams@...>
Date: 2002-05-20T11:40:54+09:00
Subject: RE: [ANN] RubyEclipse released

Han,

Thanks for the Linux tip. Do you mind if I put that on our wiki?

The Java stuff won't show up if you stay in the Resource Perspective. As
time wears on, pieces will arrive that provide a far better Ruby Perspective
(ie, you would not even know Java was supported). Code completion is
definately the number one feature of ANY IDE in my mind. It is in the works.
If you press control space in the RDT editor, you will notice that there are
a couple of lame entries. The framework supports code completion (it is
perfectly done in the JDT). The hard part is going to be getting it in a
dynamic language such as Ruby. Maybe we'll hook you in six months. Thanks
for giving it a try!

Adam Williams
RoleModel Software, Inc.
The XP(tm) Software Studio(tm)
http://www.rolemodelsoftware.com
mailto:awilliams@rolemodelsoft.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Han Holl [mailto:han@pobox.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 5:19 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyEclipse released


Adam Williams wrote:

>4. Choose a file or a project and click on the Running Man button - This
>will allow you to create a Launch Configuration. This is where you can
>specify exactly which file to launch, interpreter and program arguments,
and
>which interpreter to run with.
>
I guess you're using Windows. For it to work at all om Linux, I had to
make a symlink
ln -s ruby /usr/bin/rubyw.exe
and then say that my interpreter was called ruby and lived in /usr.

Then I got some output.

But I must say (agreeing with James) that on first look eclipse is quite
confusing. I don't like IDE's very much as a rule, the only one I use is
JBuilder, and then only for the wonderful completion feature: you type
System. and it pops up a list with all legal values.
If such a feature is planned for RubyEclipse, I can swallow some of the
pain. (Not being able to use nedit for instance is very painful when
using the awful JBuilder editor).
I think an extra problem for RubyEclipse is that every menu and button
in it is loaded with Java stuff.

For the time being, it's back to nedit for me.

Cheers,

Han Holl