From: Dan North <dan@...>
Date: 2003-08-15T20:50:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby & Windows-world; IDEs

Hi Armin.

As a Java programmer and something of a Ruby Nuby, there are two things 
I want from an editor/IDE. The first is a quick test-code-refactor 
cycle, and the second is any sort of support for being a lazy programmer :)

I can use Eclipse with the Ruby plugin or Scite and I can run my test 
suite from within the IDE, which is great. The Eclipse plugin editor is 
pretty rudimentary - basic highlighting, no completion. Scite is better 
for that but doesn't have tabbing or an explorer view. Neither of them 
supports refactoring, which would be a huge win. Time to start thinking 
about a ruby refactoring editor I guess :)

Having said that, I am still writing code faster in Ruby than in Java, 
even with all of Java's attendant tools, just because the language 
itself is so much more agile.

Cheers,
Dan

Armin Roehrl wrote:

> Thank Markus,
>
>> I do not know any others IDE's for Ruby. never tried the windows 
>> stuff, I have only Linux.
>
> So do I as much as possible :-), but I think for the main-stream 
> acceptance
> of Ruby, a solid working IDE is helpful -- at least many new Ruby
> programmers coming from the Java world seem to be obsessed by
> big IDEs.
>
> Thx,
>     -A.
>
>