Re:I Love Ruby
by vidarh on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:28AM
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I think you're right many don't understand it, but also many who do understand it a bit seem to be scared of trying to embrace it, and so never really experience the power of it.
Even within the Ruby community a whole lot of people just stop at fairly basic exploration in the Rails console and don't explore the full level of flexibility they get you.
And I think a good Ruby IDE would be one that tried to be more of a Smalltalk like environment - if you want to refactor Ruby code, you're far better off starting by introspecting an actually loaded app environment rather than starting from a static parse.
Even within the Ruby community a whole lot of people just stop at fairly basic exploration in the Rails console and don't explore the full level of flexibility they get you.
And I think a good Ruby IDE would be one that tried to be more of a Smalltalk like environment - if you want to refactor Ruby code, you're far better off starting by introspecting an actually loaded app environment rather than starting from a static parse.