I still haven’t found a good Ruby IDE that offers intellisense, but I did come across Ruby in Steel today. It’s a Ruby plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 and while it doesn’t offer intellisense yet, the company, SaphireSteele, is advertising a developer edition with intellisense will be available in Jan ‘07.

I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Old habits die-hard, I’m still tempted to put semi colons and curly braces in my Ruby code.  This is what happens when you are coding in two different languages.

Ever since I started programming in Ruby, I’m forgetting to declare the access modifier in front of my methods and other times I didn’t bother declaring a main method, I just started writing code in the middle of the class wondering why Eclipse is drawing red lines under my code.

I experienced the same problems when I was coding in C++ and Perl at work, and it took about a year to get over it.  At least then I was using a different IDE, lately I’ve used Eclipse for both Ruby and Java development and there’s nothing to remind me that I’ve started coding in a different language.

Maybe this is a sign that I should look into JRuby.

I’m writing Ruby code with a C++ accent, while Ruby’s core is small, it’s programming style is much more fluid and harder to get used, especially after coding in C++/Java/C# for the last 6 years.