RAD with Ruby

Amit Upadhyay writes "KDE's award winning integrated development environment KDevelop, has integrated support for Ruby, an excellent and easy to use object oriented scrpting language. If you are looking for a good programming tool for quickly developing a professional one off application, Ruby (with KDE bindings) maybe just the thing for you. There is a quick tutorial and an online book to get you started. You may also want to read a quite informative comparison of Python with Ruby. If you are web developer or write enterprise applications with JAVA etc, take a look at Ruby on Rails(api), they have a nice blog too. KDevelop provides a GUI builder and Debugger for rapid application development(RAD) with Ruby, which is getting better. There is a nice tutorial on using KDE libraries with Ruby. And if you have lots of code in C/C++, extending Ruby to use them is easy.
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Comments

Re:Ruby Rules!

[Pxtl]

Yes, Python managed to be just as mutch a kludgefest as Perl, just with a more human-readable syntax. Its still an inconsistent mess.

Ruby, to my mind, is an ugly smash-up between Python and Smalltalk, but unfortunately isn't focused on claiming the merits of either - it isn't half as legible as Python, and not half as consistent as Smalltalk.

Still, the fact is that for a modern language to catch on, it has to have a popular free implementation, a massive robust system scripting library, etc. This is why languages like Perl and Python catch on - not because they're the best, but because they "just work" batteries included, and have a lot of people pushing them. Smalltalk didn't have that - at least, not in the free implementations.