From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-08-07T08:12:11+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question from a smalltalker

On Thursday, August 7, 2003, 3:23:09 AM, Lyle wrote:

> Michael Garriss wrote:

>> Although I can't test it in my current enviroment, I believe that ctags 
>> works on ruby too.  Sure it's a bit dumb (ctags) but combined with vim 
>> or emacs it can be quite useful.

> Actually, I can confirm it ;) I use the CodeBrowser (I think that's its 
> name) plugin for JEdit and it uses ctags under the hood to generate the 
> list of classes, methods etc. for the current file. Works pretty well 
> for Ruby, although the method names are not fully-qualified (i.e. no 
> distinction between "A::foo" and "B::foo", both appear as "foo"). Not 
> sure if this latter problem is a defect of ctags or of CodeBrowser's use 
> of the ctags file information.

It's a limitation of ctags, and not one that's likely to be overcome
soon.  Sadly, ctags doesn't generate much info at all for Ruby code.

I wonder if cscope can be put to the test...

Gavin