>|Is there a good IDE or even intelligent editor (i.e. Intelesense and syntax
>|checking) for ruby?
>
>Emacs?

Sounds like an excellent way to balance things out.  You get the
incredible productivity and enjoyment of learning Ruby, plus the
frustration and madness of emacs :-).

Before anyone flames me, it was a joke!

Of course, I'd recommend VIM, which colour codes Ruby very nicely (I'm
sure emacs does, too).