From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-09-17T23:37:02+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question from a smalltalker

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.