# IDE Supporting Global Class List (Yes I searched) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 30, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ide-supporting-global-class-list-yes-i-searched/139110 "2008-05-30T22:03:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![linchat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@linchat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/linchat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ide-supporting-global-class-list-yes-i-searched/139110/1 "2008-05-30T22:03:52Z")
Before I post this, I did search this site + google for the answer. I know their has been a great deal of discussion regarding Ruby & IDE’s. Having said that, what I am looking for an IDE that supports Global Project Class views. Unless I am missing something, I have gone through Net Beans, Komodo, Eclipse and a couple of others. Seems like this should be standard unless I am missing something. Just was a list of the classes in my project, is that to much to ask? 🙂 Cheers and thanks. Btw, I am new to Ruby coming from PHP. Been using PHPED for a while now & really liked the IDE for php. ---
**Author:** ![linchat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@linchat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/linchat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ide-supporting-global-class-list-yes-i-searched/139110/2 "2008-05-30T22:15:15Z")
Lin Chat wrote: > Having said that, what I am looking for an IDE that supports Global > Project Class views. Can you explain what you mean by a Global Project Class view. I am one of the developers of Ruby in Steel and if we haven’t got this, I’d like to know about it! 😉 Do you mean you want to see all available classes? If so, we have the Ruby Explorer which lets you view and navigate to all available classes (when the classes are written in C, we navigate into the class documentation - when they’re in Ruby, we go to the code). If this is not what you mean, I’d be grateful if you could describe what you are looking for. best wishes Huw C. SapphireSteel Software Ruby and Rails In Visual Studio [http://www.sapphiresteel.com](http://www.sapphiresteel.com) ---
**Author:** ![linchat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@linchat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/linchat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ide-supporting-global-class-list-yes-i-searched/139110/3 "2008-05-30T22:35:06Z")
Huw C. wrote: > Lin Chat wrote: > > > Having said that, what I am looking for an IDE that supports Global > > Project Class views. > > Can you explain what you mean by a Global Project Class view. I am one > of the developers of Ruby in Steel and if we haven’t got this, I’d like > to know about it! 😉 > > Do you mean you want to see all available classes? If so, we have the > Ruby Explorer which lets you view and navigate to all available classes > (when the classes are written in C, we navigate into the class > documentation - when they’re in Ruby, we go to the code). > > If this is not what you mean, I’d be grateful if you could describe what > you are looking for. > > best wishes > Huw C. > > SapphireSteel Software > Ruby and Rails In Visual Studio > [http://www.sapphiresteel.com](http://www.sapphiresteel.com) PHPED [http://www.nusphere.com/products/phped\_52/large\_image1.htm](http://www.nusphere.com/products/phped_52/large_image1.htm) For them it is called a Code Explorer. List of all Classes available in the project as well as collapsables so you can see properties and methods. Does saphiresteel also support rdoc / type hinting. Every IDE I have come accross seems to either have limitation in 3 area, autocomplete, code explorers or rdoc support. ---
**Author:** ![linchat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@linchat](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/linchat)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ide-supporting-global-class-list-yes-i-searched/139110/4 "2008-05-30T23:29:21Z")
I think our Ruby Explorer is what you may be looking for: [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Ruby-Explorer-Code-Navigation](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Ruby-Explorer-Code-Navigation) > Does saphiresteel also support rdoc / type hinting. Every IDE I have > come accross seems to either have limitation in 3 area, autocomplete, > code explorers or rdoc support. We have RDoc documentation in tooltips or in a docked window. We have parameter information displayed in tooltips. We have analytical IntelliSense that interprets your code as it is written in order to provide code completion etc. In the current beta of our next release (1.3) we also have an IntelliSense Librarian. This will let users precompile IntelliSense libraries so that information can be provided even when files are not ‘required’ in code (this is mainly for Rails). Here is some more information on the things you’ve mentioned: An overview… (This shows various tooltip RDoc hints and the docked RDoc window) [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-Developer-Overview](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-Developer-Overview) IntelliSense [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-On-Rails-Code-Completion-The](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-On-Rails-Code-Completion-The) [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-On-Rails-Code-Completion-3](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-On-Rails-Code-Completion-3) [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-On-Rails-IntelliSense-1](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-On-Rails-IntelliSense-1) [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Evaluating-Ruby-IntelliSense](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Evaluating-Ruby-IntelliSense) The Editor [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Ruby-Editor](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Ruby-Editor) The Librarian [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Using-the-Ruby-Librarian-a-step-by](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Using-the-Ruby-Librarian-a-step-by) Please let me know if we’ve missed anything. We are always looking for new ideas 😉 best wishes Huw SapphireSteel Software Ruby and Rails In Visual Studio [http://www.sapphiresteel.com](http://www.sapphiresteel.com)