Ruby & Windows-world; IDEs

[Armin Roehrl]

Hi all,

one of the things that seems to be more important
to the odd Java-coders than to emacs/(g)vim people seems
to be IDEs for Ruby in the windows-world.

The freeride 0.5 windows IDE does not yet support debugging.
Is that a big fundamental problem, or can one hope that this gets fixed
by the certainly dead busy development team in the next few
months?

What IDE would you recommend to the Windows-developer?
Is RDE any good?

I am only fishing for ideas.

Thanks
-A.

 

[Armin Roehrl]

Thank you!

If I remeber correclty debugging works, at least on Linux, but I think it
should work too in Windows.

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/70354

Does it work for anybody else?
I did these changes and it simply dies on me as soon as I click on debug.

Good night,
-A.

 

[Osuka]

Hi all,

one of the things that seems to be more important
to the odd Java-coders than to emacs/(g)vim people seems
to be IDEs for Ruby in the windows-world.

The freeride 0.5 windows IDE does not yet support debugging.
Is that a big fundamental problem, or can one hope that this gets fixed
by the certainly dead busy development team in the next few
months?

What IDE would you recommend to the Windows-developer?
Is RDE any good?

I am only fishing for ideas.

Thanks
-A.

RDE is IMHO a very good Ruby IDE, it does what I want with no fuzz,
freeride looks good but I didn't like the speed or the size. I just
checked and at aug-13 was added the dll for debugging using ruby 1.8
great!, Sakazuki san arigatou gozaimasu. Eclipse IMO is a bit of a
monster but is there! I've have tried lots of possibilities, RDE is
the one, at least for me.

Give it a try
Files
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42751
Homepage
http://homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde.html

 

[Markus Jais]

Thank you!
Does it work for anybody else?
I did these changes and it simply dies on me as soon as I click on debug.

Good night,
-A.

hello Armin

I have the same problem. never used the degubber. but when I click on the
"bug" icon the Debugger appears. but when I click on one of the debugger
buttons the whole freeride dies.
maybe this will get fixed with the next realease.

I do not know any others IDE's for Ruby. never tried the windows stuff, I
have only Linux.

Markus

 

[Martin DeMello]

Thank Markus,
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.

The problem is, the windows command line is so non-functional that you
need an IDE or a unixlike shell to do anything. For java programming,
I've found the "sweet spot" IDE to be JCreator - small, light, and it
takes care of all the linking and compiling issues for me. And it's
quicker to d/l than cygwin when I have to work on a strange machine. RDE
looks good too, though I've not needed a ruby IDE yet.

martin

 

[Takashi & Kayoko Sano]

Hi Armin,

What IDE would you recommend to the Windows-developer?
Is RDE any good?

I definitely recommend RDE if you're looking for an IDE on Windows.
It's fairly stable and feature-rich. It offers auto-completion,
debugging, macro, code highlighting (of course) features, you name it.
It also allows you to register ruby scripts as its macros. Further, RDE
exposes its COM interface to allow you to control itself in ruby scripts
using WIN32OLE. That means, you can write macros and extend the IDE
using ruby... Doesn't it sound wonderful?

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Takashi Sano
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[Hal E. Fulton]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sascha Dördelmann" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: Ruby & Windows-world; IDEs

It's not only Java people who like powerful IDEs. I guess Smalltalkers
like them, too. (I certainly do.)

Right, it was actually Borland in 1983 that introduced me
to the idea of an IDE (Turbo Pascal v3). I suppose the
Smalltalk IDE predates that, I don't know.

At that time, the IDE was very, very simple (and character-
based). I liked the idea so much that I implemented little
IDEs for myself in every environment that didn't have one
(and at that time, that was pretty much every environment).

Hal

 

[Daniel Carrera]

Thank Markus,
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.

I'm sure an IDE is helpful. That's why I'd like to see them in Linux.
Windows is not the only platform that could benefit from an IDE ya'know.

--
Daniel Carrera, Math PhD student at UMD. PGP KeyID: 9AF77A88
.-"~~~"-. On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
/ O O \ "Our wines leave you nothing to hope for"
: s :
\ \___/ / Sign outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:
`-.___.-' "Ladies may have a fit upstairs"

 

[Sean O'Dell]

Just to toss up my habits for public scrutiny:

Our little office here is behind a Linksys router/DSL modem and we share
a single RedHat Linux server for file sharing, printing and a myriad of
other services that we utilize from our Windows and Mac desktops.

I currently use SciTE on Windows 2000 Professional to edit my Ruby files
over a Samba share that resides off my Linux user home directory, and I
am telnet'd into the Linux server and do everything else Ruby-related
from the bash command-line.

Sean O'Dell

 

[Armin Roehrl]

Right, it was actually Borland in 1983 that introduced me
to the idea of an IDE (Turbo Pascal v3). I suppose the
Smalltalk IDE predates that, I don't know.

I remember the days .. TP v3 was dammed fast.