At Sun, I’m in the Developer Tools group. Someone asked “Which tools does
the Ruby gang use, anyhow?” I said “Hmm, TextMate, Emacs, Vi, recently some
Eclipse and NetBeans.” They said “How do you know?” I said “Uh.” They
said “Why don’t you ask?” So I am. Drop by the
Ruby
Tool Survey and let’s find out.
There are only two questions; if it takes you more than
fifteen seconds there’s something wrong.
I promise to publish all the results in full
right here in this entry once I have them at the end of the month.
Yes, the Ruby community contains many gifted hackers who could probably
figure out how to game the polling machinery and stack the deck in favor of
the One True Editor. But that wouldn’t be nice, so please don’t.