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 Ruby

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language. Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms, including functional, object oriented, imperative and reflective. It also has a dynamic type system and automatic memory management;

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

Popular IDEs for Ruby

Eclipse

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment (IDE) and an extensible plug-in system. It is written mostly in Java and can be used to develop applications in Java and, by means of various plug-ins, other programming languages including Ada, C, C++, COBOL, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby (including Ruby on Rails framework), Scala, Clojure, Groovy and Scheme.

Aptana

rubymine

gEdit

XCode

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