Ruby-on-Ruby editors [Was: Ruby Book...]

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Just a stray thought here. I hope nobody’s offended if there end up
being multiple implementations of a Squeaky Ruby environment. I’m
working on one, and I think a few others might be as well. Why? Ummm
… because it’s fun?

-Brian W

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“Bill Kelly” wrote:

Perhaps some sort of Ruby editor with a built-in IRB would be
ideal… (Actually I seem to recall Phlip announcing something
like that many moons ago… Yes- RuEdit in [ruby-talk:22766]…
Hmm in this case the editor’s built-in macro language is Ruby…)

Hmm. FreeRIDE beat me to the critical mass there (and to rather epic
BDUF in my exalted opinion).

The point of a Ruby-on-Ruby editor would be to beat Squeak at its own
game - editing itself within itself using itself, on the fly.

My own work is proceding quietly, in my >copious< spare time.

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“Brian Wisti” wrote:

Just a stray thought here. I hope nobody’s offended if there end up
being multiple implementations of a Squeaky Ruby environment. I’m
working on one, and I think a few others might be as well. Why? Ummm
… because it’s fun?

We can either avoid re-invent the wheel, meaning we bond to some GUI
layer like Gtk. Or we can write our own GUI layer, thus re-inventing
the wheel that Squeak invented.

I’m lazy. Which path did you pick?

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Hi –

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On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Phlip wrote:

“Brian Wisti” wrote:

Just a stray thought here. I hope nobody’s offended if there end up
being multiple implementations of a Squeaky Ruby environment. I’m
working on one, and I think a few others might be as well. Why? Ummm
… because it’s fun?

We can either avoid re-invent the wheel, meaning we bond to some GUI
layer like Gtk. Or we can write our own GUI layer, thus re-inventing
the wheel that Squeak invented.

I’m lazy. Which path did you pick?

There has to be a “squeaky wheel gets the grease” joke in here
somewhere, but I can’t find it :slight_smile:

David

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