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Ruby developers wanting their own custom development environment can just
roll their own, that's true!
but still, in a convention over configuration way of thinking, a distro
could have sensible base settings and features, allowing you to work from it
out of the box.

I would suggest aiming at the actual OSX and Windows based devs.... one way
to do this would be to bundle it with the recently turned open source
e-editor (Textmate Clone for XP).

2009/5/15 Alex <imphasing / gmail.com>

> Quite frankly, if you're attempting to target this at Ruby developers, I
> think most of us (I know at least me) would rather put together our own
> setup. I would rather pick and choose everything I want in the first place,
> instead of my development environment being overflowing
> with extraneous software.
> If you're just making this as "something to do", then I completely
> understand, but don't expect developers to want to use something that's not
> customized how we like it.
>
> As far as editors go, Emacs and VIM are the standards, and as long as
> you've
> got rubygems and ruby installed, the user can handle pretty much everything
> else.
>
>
> Alex
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Tim Apple <tim / tdapple.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am starting a hobby project which is a Linux distro focused on Ruby.
> > The plan is for it to be a Ubuntu spin, with all the ruby libraries
> > installed by default.
> >
> > I would like to also implement as much ruby based software as possible,
> > including shoes apps. What I need know is what you all need or would
> > like to see in a distro as Ruby developers. If you could take some time
> > to answer the following questions.
> >
> > 1. editor you use most with ruby?
> >
> > 2. packages you require as a developer that may not involve ruby?
> >
> > 3. I want to use allot of shoes stuff, or at least have it available.
> > Since shoes is gtk based I was going to go with Gnome or Xfce desktop
> > enviroment..opinions?
> >
> >
> > Mind you this is not somthing that will be released tomorrow...I am in
> > planning stages now...I will hope to have a release out around Karmic's
> > release. Other things I need..
> >
> > Name ideas?
> >
> > Artwork....wallpaper, icons, logo(once I have a name
> >
> > webspace...once I have a name I will just start a wordpress blog..but
> > once in production I would like to have the site done in Rails just to
> > be as Ruby as possible.
> >
> > Well thats enough for now...thanks for your time everybody.
> >
> > Tim Apple
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> >
> >
>

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