The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.lang.ruby as well. Following all the great comments here, I've made some changes to the Ruby FAQ (even adding a section on editors for the poor souls who have not yet been converted to the One True Editor). It's at http://dev.rubycentral.com/faq/index.html Please don't link to this page - it is the development web site. We'll move it across to production as things settle down. Keep that feedback coming. Dave