Ed Howland wrote: > Peter makes very good points. Thanks for the wrap-up. (And I was just > being tongue-in-cheek about the my reasons for getting a Mac.) > > Yiannis has a valid point too. There should be a nice X-Platform IDE > that ships with Ruby core
I'd be curious to see what the Ruby community could come up with. I do like the idea of something like IDLE that's actually *designed for* and *benefits* typical Ruby projects. (I don't dislike IDEs in general, and I'm even using NetBeans for a JRuby/Monkeybars/Swing project, and loving it. I just believe that IDEs are completely inappropriate for *Rails*.) > or is at least considered the de-facto > standard. Why? > Some people just take to a language if it comes with a nice > environment to work in. A good OS, a good text editor, and a good terminal emulator make up a *very* nice environment. Not everything needs an IDE. > Eclipse for Java, What? No. Eclipse doesn't come with Java, it's not as nice as NetBeans, and in fact Sun is behind NetBeans. Analogy FAIL. :) > VS for C++. Is that really an advantage? [...] > I think there is a golden opportunity here. Almost all the pieces > exist to create a community developed IDE. Perhaps limited in scope at > first, but extensible. No one is stopping you! I for one will be very, very interested to see what you come up with. > > There is the TKText widget for the editor. guirb [1] for the irb > shell, and we can link to ruby-debug-ide for debugging support. > > I think we have to figure out syntax colorizing, and code-completion. > Does anyone know of a tabbed window widget for Tk? > > Also, is it possible to just eval Tk directly as a string? Then > additonal widgets could be added at runtime. Please, not Tk. The Ruby API is apparently awful, and the resulting applications tend to be really ugly. This is probably a good candidate for Swing/Monkeybars, or maybe wx. > > > [1] http://github.com/martindemello/guirb.git > Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
