From: Lothar Scholz <llothar@...>
Date: 2002-05-28T22:01:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby code completion in RubyEclipse

On Mon, 27 May 2002 18:18:08 GMT, Han Holl <han@pobox.com> wrote:

>That's of course entirely up to you. But what you say is true: eclipse
>seems to have quite a learning curve, and the promise would have to
>be enormous to entice non-java people even to try it.
>What I expect from an IDE is really only that it's an intelligent

For a script IDE i also find a Debugger, Profiler, Memory Supervisor
(how much objects where allocated at what lines), roundtrip enabed UML
Tool, embedded Help, Metrics Checker (very important for larger
scripting projects), Code Coverage Analyser combinded with an
integrated Test Tool (which can also test GUI + Web applications),
an Aspect Browser/Weaver, a Bugtracking system  and a PSP like build
in Time Management Tool very useful.

JBuilder is slowly moving into this kind of IDE i like :-)

>editor. Maybe the approach of extending a good editor (like nedit)
>with ruby-knowledge would be more promising.

Sorry an Editor ist just one part of the toolchain, perhaps the most
important but it is no IDE.

Try to think bigger.