Re: [Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-28 Thread Ed Howland
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Iain Davis wrote: >> As far as Tk goes. I am not particularly married to any one windowing >> toolkit. Would wx, gtk or qt be a better fit, and still be X-platform? >> I think we should target Windows, Linux and Mac. Tk caught my eye >> because IDLE is written in

Re: [Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-27 Thread Iain Davis
> As far as Tk goes. I am not particularly married to any one windowing > toolkit. Would wx, gtk or qt be a better fit, and still be X-platform? > I think we should target Windows, Linux and Mac. Tk caught my eye > because IDLE is written in it (Tkinter) and makes it a breeze to > create other desk

Re: [Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-27 Thread Ed Howland
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Iain Davis > It does, but it doesn't appeal to the audience that Ed may be thinking > of. That audience is going to be drawn in much more quickly if they > can download a single package that a) includes both ruby and an IDE (a > low-footprint one similar to IDLE wi

Re: [Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-27 Thread Iain Davis
> Ed Howland wrote: >> Yiannis has a valid point too. There should be a nice X-Platform IDE >> that ships with Ruby core Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > 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 >

[Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-27 Thread Marnen Laibow-Koser
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 comm

[Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-25 Thread Marnen Laibow-Koser
Michael Pavling wrote: > On 25 August 2010 22:20, Michael Pavling wrote: >> and has done since the first time I tried it in Jan 2009. > > Correction, it was April when I got debugging working :-) Good to know. Maybe the problem had to do with using JRuby on this project (which is a Swing/Monke

Re: [Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-25 Thread Iain Davis
> Your attitude is similar enough to mine, if I understand it correctly, > that I suspect if you try a good graphical editor like KomodoEdit or > jEdit, you won't go back to Emacs in GUI situations. *grin*. Certainly possible. I think I tried KomodoEdit, but that was long while ago, who knows how

[Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-25 Thread Marnen Laibow-Koser
Iain Davis wrote: > This is discussion has been very helpful to me: I'm learning Rails > (and Ruby), so far I've primarily been using Emacs and command line. > But I also I had given NetBeans (and a couple of other IDEs) a brief > try on the off-chance that I was missing out on something that I wou

Re: [Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-24 Thread Leonardo Mateo
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Robert Walker wrote: > Leonardo Mateo wrote: >> I use Vim. Mostly because it just feels good for me, with the right >> plugins I have everything I use on every IDE I've used before (that >> is, code competion, syntax highlighting, code reference, tabs, and a >> few

[Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-24 Thread Robert Walker
Leonardo Mateo wrote: > I use Vim. Mostly because it just feels good for me, with the right > plugins I have everything I use on every IDE I've used before (that > is, code competion, syntax highlighting, code reference, tabs, and a > few more). As long as Vim uses that damn modal editing (i.e. 'i

[Rails] Re: Re: Ruby on Rails IDE

2010-08-24 Thread Marnen Laibow-Koser
Todd Weeks wrote: > Thanks all for your help. I must admit part of the purpose of my post > was to > vent my own ignorance. Your responses are very encouraging. > I'm getting better at searching the group itself. Happy learned how to > put. > LOL But its nice to know there are persons out there t