Cedric Beust (of TestNG fame) went into why this is more difficult for Ruby: http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000414.html
On 8/13/07, Chad Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/13/07, Rick Hightower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I feel > > the productivety gain while using dynamic langauges is not as good as the > > productivty gain by using a good Java IDE. I'd rather have a good IDE then > > less lines of code. I realize that this may put me in the minority on this > > list but.... I am use to it. > > The lack of a ruby refactoring IDE does really suck, but you learn to > deal with it :) They are working on it, though - Jruby+netbeans, and > Ruby in Steel [1] on Visual Studio are two that I keep hearing about. > Also, some lightweight editors like TextMate do pretty well with the > idiom- and code-completion stuff. I actually prefer TextMate > nowadays, which is a big conversion for a prior Eclipse devotee. Less > chrome is nice :) I'd switch in a second though if something could > give me foolproof project-wide method/Class renaming and such. > > -- Chad > > [1] http://www.sapphiresteel.com/spip.php?page=feature-list > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
