# Have you tried KDevelope 3.4 for Ruby dev?

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 28, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/have-you-tried-kdevelope-3-4-for-ruby-dev/83674 "2007-01-28T18:40:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Griff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Griff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Griff)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/have-you-tried-kdevelope-3-4-for-ruby-dev/83674/1 "2007-01-28T18:40:18Z")

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Have you tried KDevelope 3.4 for Ruby dev?

Is it any good?

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**Author:** ![Griff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Griff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Griff)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/have-you-tried-kdevelope-3-4-for-ruby-dev/83674/2 "2007-01-28T19:30:23Z")

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It’s ok. You can run non-interactive ruby scripts in it and the syntax  
highlighting works o.k. But that’s already all.  
I guess a normal Kwrite session would be enough for small projects 😉

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**Author:** ![Griff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Griff](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Griff)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/have-you-tried-kdevelope-3-4-for-ruby-dev/83674/3 "2007-01-28T20:16:29Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> > Is it any good?

I am using KDevelop for Ruby and Rails, and it’s integrated extremely  
well with KDE, Kommander, Korundum and QTRuby 3, and of course CVS and  
SVN. However, I’m using KDevelop 3.5.6 and all the underlying packages  
are either 3.5.6 or the required dependencies for 3.5.6. I haven’t  
attempted to work with 3.4 at all. KDevelop is rather large, though, and  
pretty much limited to Linux and for all practical purposes KDE and Qt.  
If you have a different idea of what a Ruby application should be like  
– Windows or Mac, a different desktop, or a different GUI toolkit –  
you’re probably better off with something else. Free as in freedom  
doesn’t always mean convenient portability. ☹

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)  
[http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/](http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/)

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given  
rabbits fire.