On Sonntag, 7. Februar 2010, Kirk Lowery wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:46 AM, detlev <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Freitag, 5. Februar 2010, Kirk Lowery wrote: > > > I've been using eric4 for a while for python programming. Now I'm > > > getting into ruby, and have a question: > > > > > > I see that the syntax highlighting JustWorks(tm) which is great. One of > > > > the > > > > > great benefits of eric is the shell in the horizontal toolbox. I'm able > > > > to > > > > > explore the language by doing tests of code there. I'd like to do the > > > > same > > > > > with ruby (I assume with ri), but I don't see any setting in > > > preferences > > > > to > > > > > do that, and eric (apparently) doesn't do it automatically. > > > > > > How do I access ri in eric4? > > > > > > TIA! > > > > > > Kirk > > > > Just open the Shell context menu, Start, Ruby. > > > > If you save your script with a .rb extension, you may use eric to debug > > it. To > > develop Ruby projects just select Ruby as it's programming language in > > the project properties dialog. > > After installing Eric4.4.1 on my four year old PowerBook G4 (OS X 10.5.8) > -- a very non-trivial task, indeed! -- I was able to get the interactive > mode working. Thanks! > > Now, another question for Ruby configuration: > > I'd like to use Eric's Help Documentation facilities for Ruby > documentation. I'll be exploring this over the next several days, but any > pointers would be appreciated! For example: would setting the directories > in Preferences for Python Help documentation with Ruby instead of Python > doc directories be at all useful?
That should work. However, the menu entry will still read "Python". > > Thanks, again! > > Kirk > Detlev -- Detlev Offenbach [email protected] _______________________________________________ Eric mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric
