Freeride users - Sep 2006 - [FR-users] intellisense?

Hi,

Does free ride have intellisense support?  If not is there a planned date
for it''s support?

(is it even possible to have intellisense with a dynamic language like
Ruby?)

Tks
Greg
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thanks Jonathan
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Greg Hauptmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does free ride have intellisense support?  If not is there a planned 
> date for it''s support?
>
> (is it even possible to have intellisense with a dynamic language like 
> Ruby?)
>
> Tks
> Greg
Hi Greg,

To answer shortly, no we don''t support autocompletion at the moment. It
is possible to do with Ruby but it''s very complicated to be 100% exact.
Currently I''m working on updating RRB which allows (besides
refactoring)
some basic form of auto-completion. I have no idea how usable this is 
going to be. In part because I''ve never used it, but mainly because
I''m
still in the very early stages of getting RRB to work with the latest 
Ripper.

My best suggestion would be to just learn the Ruby-API as you go. ri is 
a very useful utility once you get the hang of it. (We even have an 
ri-plugin.) That and the standard Ruby-documentation should get you a 
long way without ever needing auto-completion.

As for a planned dates, this project is all voluntary work done in our 
spare time so we generally don''t have a clue as to when something might
be release-ready. Sorry but that''s just the nature of OSSD.

With kind regards,
Jonathan