ChrisKaelin wrote:
> I prefer using eclipse for it's freedom, ruby and svn plugins etc. But
> the big problem now is, debuggin does not work anymore after v. 3.2
> and a solution seems to be quite some time away and rdb is a little
> unhandy for a lazy type like me...
> 
> So what IDE do you prefer in order to code and to debug ruby?

Although some will argue what an IDE is, I'll assume the looser meaning.

I use TextMate, irb, and bash/command line; I'm very happy with that 
setup.

Avdi Grimm wrote:
> Emacs for coding.  I find that debuggers are frequently useless and
> almost always more trouble than they are worth, so I generally debug
> with unit tests and, when necessary, puts().

I agree with that, there are cases when a debugger is useful, but not 
very often.  It's too easy to use the debugger as a crutch, and not 
write assertions or unit tests.  In Ruby, I often open the unit test 
file and the file I'm working on at the same time, and then I use 
TextMate's "Run Focused Unit Test" command to test it as I'm coding.

To run little snippets of code, I use either irb (which I always have 
open) or I use TextMate's "Execute Selection as Ruby", which is cool.

I've never coded in it, but the way people describe the IDEs used for 
SmallTalk sounds intriguing to me.  If you could integrate irb into 
TextMate, that would be very nice, indeed.










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