# Interactive ruby development **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 27, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-ruby-development/192248 "2010-07-27T00:23:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![syamajala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@syamajala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/syamajala)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-ruby-development/192248/1 "2010-07-27T00:23:22Z")
As someone who has used lisp, emacs, and slime in the past, I get incredible frustrated with having to write ruby code. I do not find the language to be that bad, but the development environments just don’t compare. My current setup is emacs, ruby-mode, and inf-ruby. I wish inf-ruby did more. It would be nice if irb tab completion worked in inf-ruby, and if this could somehow be piped to emacs and ruby-mode to get real tab completion in emacs. Does anyone have some ideas about how to go about doing this? I think one way might be to adapt slime to ruby. As far as I know, this involves writing a swank like backend for ruby, and making some changes to the emacs frontend. ---
**Author:** ![syamajala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@syamajala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/syamajala)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-ruby-development/192248/2 "2010-07-27T14:09:37Z")
Seshu Y. wrote: > As someone who has used lisp, emacs, and slime in the past, I get > incredible frustrated with having to write ruby code. I do not find the > language to be that bad, but the development environments just don’t > compare. > > My current setup is emacs, ruby-mode, and inf-ruby. I wish inf-ruby did > more. It would be nice if irb tab completion worked in inf-ruby, and if > this could somehow be piped to emacs and ruby-mode to get real tab > completion in emacs. I believe netbeans has auto-completion. Anybody else know of one? The redcar editor has TextMate-like completion, as well. [http://redcareditor.com/](http://redcareditor.com/) ---
**Author:** ![syamajala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@syamajala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/syamajala)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-ruby-development/192248/3 "2010-07-27T16:03:35Z")
I’ve used Netbeans as well and really like it. However, I’m in love with RubyMine ([RubyMine: The Ruby on Rails IDE by JetBrains](http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby)). Great support for Ruby, RoR, Git, js, HTML, CSS, and more! Best, Spencer ---
**Author:** ![syamajala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@syamajala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/syamajala)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-ruby-development/192248/4 "2010-07-27T16:46:55Z")
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Seshu Y. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > My current setup is emacs, ruby-mode, and inf-ruby. I wish inf-ruby did > more. It would be nice if irb tab completion worked in inf-ruby, and if > this could somehow be piped to emacs and ruby-mode to get real tab > completion in emacs. > > Does anyone have some ideas about how to go about doing this? I have never tried it, but the video was cool: [http://cx4a.org/software/rsense/index.html](http://cx4a.org/software/rsense/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![syamajala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@syamajala](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/syamajala)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2010, 10:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-ruby-development/192248/5 "2010-07-30T10:19:50Z")
Seshu Y. wrote: > As someone who has used lisp, emacs, and slime in the past, I get > incredible frustrated with having to write ruby code. I do not find the > language to be that bad, but the development environments just don’t > compare. > > My current setup is emacs, ruby-mode, and inf-ruby. I wish inf-ruby did > more. It would be nice if irb tab completion worked in inf-ruby, and if > this could somehow be piped to emacs and ruby-mode to get real tab > completion in emacs. > > Does anyone have some ideas about how to go about doing this? > > I think one way might be to adapt slime to ruby. As far as I know, this > involves writing a swank like backend for ruby, and making some changes > to the emacs frontend. You may want to try inf-ruby-bond([GitHub - pd/inf-ruby-bond: bond completion support for emacs' inf-ruby](http://github.com/pd/inf-ruby-bond)) which is based on bond( [GitHub - cldwalker/bond: Mission: Easy custom autocompletion for arguments, methods and beyond. Accomplished for irb and any other readline-like console environments.](http://github.com/cldwalker/bond)) a much improved version of irb’s completion. I don’t use emacs so I can’t vouch for inf-ruby-bond but I did write bond. Gabriel