When I used to develop on Windows, I just used Notepad (sucks) unless I needed a line number, then I would bring up scite to get the line number.

Now that I do all my dev on the Mac, I use TextWrangler. I like the side drawer where I can quickly get to any number of edit sessions. It does syntax highlighting, but not for Ruby (but there might be a plugin somewhere - I would look if I cared).

So, in otherwords, no IDE currently in use. Netbeans looked slick when I saw a demo a few months ago.

I guess I'm holding out for an IDE that is fully integrated into SketchUp with built in debugger (I'm not holding my breath for that one). ;)

Here's my magical ruby script that ties SketchUp / Ruby to JRuby:

#------------------------------------- require 'sketchup.rb'

dt1 = Time.now puts "before date" x = `Date` ; dt2 = Time.now puts "after date. Elasped was #{dt2-dt1} seconds, x=>#{x}<"

t1 = Time.now puts "before jruby call..." ##x = `jruby 'myscripts/jruby_test.rb'`

x = `/Users/toddburch/jruby-1.0.1/bin/jruby ~/Documents/myruby/ jruby_test.rb` ; t2 = Time.now

puts "after jruby call. Elapsed Time was #{t2-t1} seconds, result=>#{x}<" #---------------------------------------

And here is the called jruby script:

#---------------------------------------------

# Valid as of JRuby 1.0

# This is the 'magical Java include line'. include Java

# With the 'include Java' above, we can now refer to things that are part of the # standard Java platform via their full paths. frame = javax.swing.JFrame.new("Window") # Creating a Java JFrame. label = javax.swing.JLabel.new("Hello")

# We can transparently call Java methods on Java objects, just as if they were defined in Ruby. frame.getContentPane.add(label) # Invoking the Java method 'getContentPane'. frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.JFrame::EXIT_ON_CLOSE) frame.pack frame.setVisible(true) #---------------------------------------------

You will note that SketchUp goes into la-la land when JRuby is doing it's thing.

As far as having any issues with the install, I have a couple comments.

1) Charles Oliver Nutter (Mr. JRuby) was a great help, because I had issues too. He responded to my emails fast. 2) The JRuby install, when I ran it, needed improvement. It altered my system profile for my bash shell, and it should have only updated the profile for my userid. Shame on it. 3) I had to modify the path in the profile from what it created to fully qualify the path to JRuby so it would work. Shame on it.

Todd

On Jun 16, 9:59 am, calmze <cal...@gmail.com> wrote: