On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:21 AM, RVince<[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks guys -- may be a dumb q, but... > > It seems that if you are coding rails, there's little you need/want > other than syntax highlighting (and perhaps a means to prettify the > code). You really cannot set breakpoints or use an IDE in writing > Rails can you? -Rvince
Sure you can. Rails has very nice support for ruby-debug. The various ruby IDEs use ruby-debug, and there are plug-ins for various programmers editors (vim, emacs, textmate for the mac ...) which allow ruby/rails programs to be run under the debugger, set breakpoints from the editor, etc. For example I use the rubyamp plugin in textmate which does this. Most Ruby/Rails programmers I know of tend to use editors rather than IDEs. By personal observation most I've seen are using OS X and Textmate. There are also plugins to do things like run tests and rspec specs from the ide and get nice pretty displays of the results. I tend to use this in conjunction with autotest/autospec which monitors file changes and runs tests/specs automatically. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
