# Getting started problem -- Ruby and SciTE

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/getting-started-problem-ruby-and-scite/42911>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [11 December 2007 01:41 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/getting-started-problem-ruby-and-scite/42911 "2007-12-11T01:41:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Luis\_Lavena1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f08c70/32.png) [@Luis\_Lavena1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Luis_Lavena1)\
**Post date:** [11 December 2007 01:41 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/getting-started-problem-ruby-and-scite/42911/1 "2007-12-11T01:41:09Z")

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> I've just installed the MS Windows Ruby installation, and the syntax  
> highlighting in the version of SciTE that ships with it doesn't work  
> properly with the examples in The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide (it doesn't  
> recognise that the regexp has ended in the WordIndex class in the "Standard  
> Types" chapter. I've downloaded a more recent version of SciTE, which  
> recognises the syntax but I can't get Tools | Go to find the Ruby compiler  
> (the earlier version works fine).

If the syntax highlight is broken, please report a ticket in the  
tracker:

[http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group\_id=167](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=167)

> Can anyone give me any clues on getting a nice, working, syntax-highlit IDE  
> for Ruby?

Komodo, Komodo Edit, NetBeans, Aptana, you name it 😛

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> On Dec 10, 7:12 pm, "Tim Rowe" \<n...@digitig.co.uk\> wrote: