Curt Hibbs
12/29/2004 2:29:00 AM
Actually, you can use FreeRIDE on all three platforms.
Curt
Zach Dennis [mailto:zdennis@mktec.com]
>
> Giovanni Intini wrote:
> > For Christmas I got a wonderful present: a 1GB USB drive. Now I feel
> > the need to fill it with Ruby goodness, but I don't know exactely what
> > to put on it.
> >
> > Basically I need a portable development enviroment that can be used
> > with OSX, Linux and Windows. Windows could be bypassed by putting a
> > bootable minimal live linux distribution on the drive, but then I
> > could find myself on a box that can't boot from a usb drive (I have
> > two of them at home :)).
> >
> > I was thinking about:
> >
> > Reference Documentation: Pickaxe2 PDF (that you too should buy!),
> > rails doumentation, who knows what else
>
> You should generate rdoc from the source of ruby. In case you don't have
> an internet connection this is always a nice to have handy. That should
> give you all core and stdlib apis.
>
> >
> > An editor for each platform: TextMate (Mac), and don't know what to
> > use on win/linux
>
> On Windows you could use:
> - Eclipse w/RDT
> - SciTe
> - FreeRide
> - ArachnoRuby
> - Mondrian IDE
> - Crimson Editor
>
> On Linux you could use:
> - Eclipse w/RDT
> - KDevelop
> - x?emacs
> - vim?
>
> On Mac you could use:
> - Eclipse w/RDT
> - BBEdit
> - TextMate
>
> I'm a big Eclipse fan myself...
>
> >
> > Ruby in its various forms
> >
> > Everything else. Obviously I don't know or I wouldn't have asked :)
> >
> > I think that 1GB should be more than enough for every ruby developer
> > so suggest everything you have in mind :)
>
> I would also throw on there a version of Pacman as well. You can't just
> work all the time!!! Pacman is a good, fun game to play every now
> and then.
>
> If you are a hard core web guy, you may want to throw on there Apache as
> well, that way you can have access to a web server, and modruby to.
>
> Then if you are really needing to fill up space, download the last 2
> years of messages from this list, so you can search the archives
> locally. =)
>
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> Zach
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