# Interactive browser/IDE for Ruby

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-browser-ide-for-ruby/49535>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 5, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-browser-ide-for-ruby/49535 "2005-12-05T20:58:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![mark.ericson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mark.ericson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mark.ericson)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-browser-ide-for-ruby/49535/1 "2005-12-05T20:58:09Z")

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I’m sure this has been asked before on this list… I was wondering if  
there are any Smalltalk-like IDE/Browser environments in the works for  
Ruby?

Certainly there are differences between an image-based environment like  
Smalltalk, and more of a scripting language like Ruby. But I certainly  
would love to have the ability to easily browse the source of all the  
Ruby  
libraries and other add-ons in an environment like a Smalltalk browser.

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![mark.ericson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mark.ericson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mark.ericson)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-browser-ide-for-ruby/49535/2 "2005-12-05T21:55:19Z")

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Actually, I’d love to see something like IRB that would let you play  
like  
IRB does ( since you’d have live autocompletion ) … and let you then  
save  
out the living environment ( code and all ) … so that the env could be  
re-instated whenever/whereever.

that would be a beautiful thing.

it would be interesting to store out all of that stuff …

… that would be a cool project.

j.

On 12/5/05, Mark E. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Thanks,

–  
“Remember. Understand. Believe. Yield! → [http://ruby-lang.org](http://ruby-lang.org)”

Jeff W.

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**Author:** ![mark.ericson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mark.ericson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mark.ericson)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-browser-ide-for-ruby/49535/3 "2005-12-07T17:52:03Z")

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This isnt going to be practical until we have ruby-in-ruby. Lots of  
cool ideas are waiting for that to arrive.