Craig’s Musings

Blue eyes, too

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Since Rails is  the most popular framework based on the Ruby language today, I appreciate what the Rails developer site has to say about “source style”:

Two spaces, no tabs
Don’t use “and” and “or” for boolean tests, instead always use “&&” and “| |”
MyClass.my_method(my_arg) — not my_method( my_arg ) or my_method my_arg
Follow the conventions you see [...]

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One of the concerns I had approaching Ruby was the apparent lack of an IDE. I see that Tim Bray expects there to be an IDE, too–among other things.
There appear to be several takes on the state of Ruby development environments. For example:

Languages like Java and C# have a class of developers that depend on [...]

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As a software architect for EMC, I’m concerned with the global reach of what I build–employed technologies must support internationalization and subsequent localization in multi-byte locales (i.e. just supporting single-byte strings or Latin-1 locales is unacceptable). Per “How To Use Unicode Strings in Rails“: Rails currently defers its Unicode support to Ruby, which currently only supports [...]

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When I wrote my previous post, I had the following picture in mind:

Let’s say that the horizonal axis, x, represents the potential solution breadth provided by a computer languages and its frameworks overall. Let’s say that the vertical axis, y, represents the essential complexity of said language/framework.
What I seek to better understand as I dive into [...]

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