# Ruby ide? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 7, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/94570 "2006-05-07T17:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bfsog)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/94570/1 "2006-05-07T17:37:46Z")
What do you lot code ruby into? Anything like and of bloodshed’s or visual studio? ---
**Author:** ![bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bfsog)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/94570/2 "2006-05-07T17:50:59Z")
I quite like RadRails. Its got a few rough edges, but syntax highlighting and database administration all seem to work. ---
**Author:** ![bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bfsog)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/94570/3 "2006-05-07T18:12:28Z")
On 5/7/06, Tom M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I quite like RadRails. Its got a few rough edges, but syntax > highlighting and database administration all seem to work. I also use RadRails - or Scite if I just want to do something quick in an editor that can highlight. Or vim on Linux where I don’t have a GUI. I have also used Arachnoruby and Freeride. You can search the Ruby-talk archives, this question gets asked about every two weeks. ---
**Author:** ![bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bfsog)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/94570/4 "2006-05-07T22:24:58Z")
On 5/7/06, Leslie V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On 5/7/06, Tom M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > I quite like RadRails. Its got a few rough edges, but syntax > > highlighting and database administration all seem to work. > > I also use RadRails - or Scite if I just want to do something quick > in an editor that can highlight. Or vim on Linux where I don’t have a GUI. > I have also used Arachnoruby and Freeride. > > You can search the Ruby-talk archives, this question gets asked about > every two weeks. I’m very pleased with Komodo, but it’s very expensive 😕 > – If it’s there, and you can see it, it’s real. If it’s not there, and you can see it, it’s virtual. If it’s there, and you can’t see it, it’s transparent. If it’s not there, and you can’t see it, you erased it. ---
**Author:** ![bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bfsog)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/94570/5 "2006-05-07T23:31:34Z")
On 5/7/06, Andrew B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > What do you lot code ruby into? > > Anything like and of bloodshed’s or visual studio? I’ve just started having a look at FreeRIDE, and took a little extra time to install it from scratch. If anyone’s interested, I put my instructions up here: [http://www.simisen.com/jmg/freeride.html](http://www.simisen.com/jmg/freeride.html) . Note: the FreeRIDE folks have an installer, which they recommend, and which does most of that work for you. I’ve got pretty high hopes for FreeRIDE: it’s code is neat, seems modular, and is fairly well-documented. It’s licensed under the same terms as Ruby itself too. ---
**Author:** ![bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bfsog)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/94570/6 "2006-05-09T04:15:47Z")
Tremendously interesting architecture. Are you aware if the loose-coupled slot architecture will work (or will someday work) with components distributed across process spaces (especially, across a network)? ---
**Author:** ![bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bfsog)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 5:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/94570/7 "2006-05-08T05:38:45Z")
On 5/7/06, John G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > the FreeRIDE folks have an installer, which they recommend, and which > does most of that work for you. > > I’ve got pretty high hopes for FreeRIDE: it’s code is neat, seems > modular, and is fairly well-documented. It’s licensed under the same > terms as Ruby itself too. > > FreeRide has a unique internal architecture that uses something call the > databus to keep all of the components loosely coupled. You can read > about > the databus here: [http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Databus](http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Databus) In FreeRIDE everything is a plugin (except the code responsible for loading plugins). Even the GUI frontend is a plugin that uses FXRuby to render the UI. There are plans to someday write a a wxRuby GUI plugin. Curt ---
**Author:** ![bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bfsog)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/94570/8 "2006-05-09T05:13:29Z")
Curt H. wrote: > > instructions up here: [http://www.simisen.com/jmg/freeride.html](http://www.simisen.com/jmg/freeride.html) . Note: > > [http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Databus](http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Databus) > > In FreeRIDE everything is a plugin (except the code responsible for > loading > plugins). Even the GUI frontend is a plugin that uses FXRuby to render > the > UI. There are plans to someday write a a wxRuby GUI plugin. > > Curt Ruby RDE ( ruby dev env) [http://homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde\_e.html](http://homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde_e.html) I’ve found this to the quite handy for windows work. But main dev environment == Vim + ‘whatever language plugins’ fit the need. ---
**Author:** ![bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@bfsog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bfsog)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 7:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/94570/9 "2006-05-09T07:54:58Z")
There’s no reason why it wouldn’t. Of course there would be added latency and you’d have to deal with the inherent unreliability of the network. Curt