CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2011/ch1 1a lj

CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2010/ch1 1a lj

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Introduction

In this Wiki, several kinds of IDEs for Ruby language is shown and their features are compared carefully.

What is an IDE

An integrated development environment (IDE) (also known as integrated design environment, integrated debugging environment or interactive development environment) is a application software that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of:

• a [source code editor]
• a compiler and/or an interpreter
• build automation tools
• a debugger

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