[Wtr-general] IDEs for Watir

Charley Baker charley.baker at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 14:50:48 EDT 2007


Steel actually looks rather interesting although their website could stand a
better designer. I'd take a look at it if I was using VS for other work,
instead the other code that I look at and tests that I write are in java, so
Eclipse is a more natural fit.

-c

On 3/29/07, John Lolis <forum-watir-users at openqa.org> wrote:
>
> Jason,
>
> I started off using Mondrian ( http://www.mondrian-ide.com/ ) and at first
> really liked the structure if gave me. I came from Visual Studio .Net so I
> was very used to the 'Heavy IDE' format.
>
> The problem is I started to have growing pains with with it. I noticed
> that it was slowing down my work, forcing artificial constraints on me and,
> on very rare occasion crashing (unacceptable for an IDE in my opinion).
>
> I switched to a very organized file structure, and scite. I run the
> program using a batch file so i get the standard console window. The batch
> file also includes a 'pause' command so that at the end of the program it
> doesn't close the console.
>
> I miss multi file find, search and replace - but i can just find a better
> editor for that. I personally enjoy the freedom of no overhead, just me and
> 1 million scite windows open.
>
> my 2c
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