Hello, I’ve been wondering for a long time if there’s an Internet text
editor for at least Ruby because I’ve been teaching one of my friends
over e-mail and he can’t download a text editor for ruby, any help?
You can write Ruby code in any text editor. Is your friend not using
one,
i.e., is your friend only using irb?
Something else your friend can use is “try ruby!” [
http://tryruby.hobix.com/ ] to experiment with Ruby in his web browser.
If in fact your friend can install/use an editor, maybe the two of you
can
use something like SubEthaEdit [
http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ ]
on Mac OS X or a similar editor on another platform. Editors like
SubEthaEdit allow you both to use the same editor at the same time.
Couple
that with an audio/video call, and you could have some great coding
sessions
together.
Regards,
Craig
On Monday 14 July 2008 09:08:24 Jacob Grover wrote:
Hello, I’ve been wondering for a long time if there’s an Internet text
editor for at least Ruby because I’ve been teaching one of my friends
over e-mail and he can’t download a text editor for ruby, any help?
You do realize that there’s nothing magical about a “ruby” text editor,
right?
Your friend could as easily use Notepad – or TextEdit on the Mac – and
any
Linux/Unix will have several available out of the box.
A text editor with specific knowledge of Ruby will give you syntax
highlighting, which makes it a lot nicer. But it’s not a requirement.
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 23:19 +0900, Craig D. wrote:
that with an audio/video call, and you could have some great coding sessions
together.Regards,
Craig
gobby is a free, collabortive editor also…
On Jul 14, 10:22 am, David M. [email protected] wrote:
A text editor with specific knowledge of Ruby will give you syntax
highlighting, which makes it a lot nicer. But it’s not a requirement.
For a Web based text editor try Google Docs.
For a Web based Ruby IDE with editor try http://heroku.com/
Charles M of Lexington
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:27 -0400, Reid T. wrote:
SubEthaEdit allow you both to use the same editor at the same time. Couple
Gobby
just noticed that one of the screenshots is of ruby code
I guess it would be helpful if we knew whether your friend has a Mac or
a PC.
I’m on a Mac, so my suggestions are:
any text editor will work, but if you want syntax highlighting then use
Text Wrangler (Bare bones software) – free
Textmate – not free
hth,
vince
Jacob Grover wrote:
Hello, I’ve been wondering for a long time if there’s an Internet text
editor for at least Ruby because I’ve been teaching one of my friends
over e-mail and he can’t download a text editor for ruby, any help?
When you install “Instant Ruby” you get SciTE, a good editor with syntax
highlighling.
If you are looking for good syntax highlighting in an IDE, then you can
use Netbeans (www.netbeans.org). This IDE includes an Editor that
handles not only Ruby but Java, C++ and others, and the IDE let’s you
create ruby projects, debug and run them directly from the IDE.
Rgds,
Nando
On 15 jul 2008, at 00.09, Vince A. wrote:
Textmate – not free
hth,
vincePosted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Or Smultron, Emacs.app, AquaMacs EMacs, Alpha
All are open source, and can be extended to support syntax
highlighting of any
programming language. At least smultron, and the two Emacs versions
listed
have a ruby mode.
chasman wrote:
On Jul 14, 10:22�am, David M. [email protected] wrote:
A text editor with specific knowledge of Ruby will give you syntax
highlighting, which makes it a lot nicer. But it’s not a requirement.For a Web based text editor try Google Docs.
For a Web based Ruby IDE with editor try http://heroku.com/Charles M of Lexington\
Thanks!
Tommy N. wrote:
On 15 jul 2008, at 00.09, Vince A. wrote:
Textmate – not free
hth,
vincePosted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Or Smultron, Emacs.app, AquaMacs EMacs, Alpha
All are open source, and can be extended to support syntax
highlighting of any
programming language. At least smultron, and the two Emacs versions
listed
have a ruby mode.
I’ve got that, but thanks for the suggestion.
David M. wrote:
On Monday 14 July 2008 09:08:24 Jacob Grover wrote:
Hello, I’ve been wondering for a long time if there’s an Internet text
editor for at least Ruby because I’ve been teaching one of my friends
over e-mail and he can’t download a text editor for ruby, any help?You do realize that there’s nothing magical about a “ruby” text editor,
right?
Your friend could as easily use Notepad – or TextEdit on the Mac – and
any
Linux/Unix will have several available out of the box.A text editor with specific knowledge of Ruby will give you syntax
highlighting, which makes it a lot nicer. But it’s not a requirement.
Oh, thanks. I never knew you could using a normal everyday editor to
code.
Craig D. wrote:
You can write Ruby code in any text editor. Is your friend not using
one,
i.e., is your friend only using irb?Something else your friend can use is “try ruby!” [
http://tryruby.hobix.com/ ] to experiment with Ruby in his web browser.If in fact your friend can install/use an editor, maybe the two of you
can
use something like SubEthaEdit [
http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ ]
on Mac OS X or a similar editor on another platform. Editors like
SubEthaEdit allow you both to use the same editor at the same time.
Couple
that with an audio/video call, and you could have some great coding
sessions
together.Regards,
Craig
I’ve heard of Subethaedit, it’s great when I was taught Ruby (A few
months ago) by my brother we used it, and when the trial expires I just
take out the preferences file.
Jacob Grover wrote:
I never knew you could using a normal everyday editor to
code.
I generally use Win32Pad (an improved Notepad replacement) on Windows,
and whatever text editor comes as standard with the Linux I’m using at
the time; even vi if all I have is a command line. I work in three
languages at the same time on a project I’m currently doing (PHP, Perl
and Ruby, not to mention HTML/CSS/JavaScript) so it helps to use the
same text editor for all. Personally I’ve never seen much point in
syntax highlighting.
If you keep your data in text files rather than a database or whatever,
you can use the same editor for them as well!
Dave