# Pair programming editor

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pair-programming-editor/69490>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 21, 2006, 11:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pair-programming-editor/69490 "2006-09-21T11:29:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 11:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pair-programming-editor/69490/1 "2006-09-21T11:29:13Z")

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Sorry, this might be a little bit off topic…

Anyway. Does anybody knows a Pair Programming Editor like SubEthaEdit or  
Moonedit?  
Preferably with syntax highlightning for ruby ?  
Maybe written in Ruby…  
Definitly not for MAC, since i don´t own one …

Of course, i would also be interested in rubyprojects concerning a Pair  
Programming Editor (even in Beta…)

cheers

Marinho

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 5:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pair-programming-editor/69490/2 "2006-09-22T05:22:17Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> Sorry, this might be a little bit off topic…
> 
> Anyway. Does anybody knows a Pair Programming Editor like SubEthaEdit or Moonedit?  
> Preferably with syntax highlightning for ruby ?  
> Maybe written in Ruby…  
> Definitly not for MAC, since i don´t own one …
> 
> Of course, i would also be interested in rubyprojects concerning a Pair Programming Editor (even in Beta…)

This feature has been talked about for years for FreeRIDE.  
In fact, it was how I got interested in FreeRIDE.

I always was in favor of remote communication between  
FR instances, but never felt that I had sufficient  
knowledge to tackle that myself.

Others said, “Oh, it should be pretty easy.” But they  
never came up with a proof of concept or anything.

So there it has sat for four or five years.

Hal

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 11:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pair-programming-editor/69490/3 "2006-09-21T11:35:15Z")

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> Anyway. Does anybody knows a Pair Programming Editor like SubEthaEdit or Moonedit?  
> Preferably with syntax highlightning for ruby ?  
> Maybe written in Ruby…  
> Definitly not for MAC, since i don´t own one …

Hi, the one I’ve used (although not written in Ruby) is gobby

It requires GTK, so it’s cross-platform, although a bit of a pain for  
Mac users. Windows/Linux downloads are fairly easy to setup

[http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi](http://darcs.0x539.de/trac/obby/cgi-bin/trac.cgi)

Kev