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by Huw Collingbourne.
Original Post: Evaluating Ruby IntelliSense
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In the time that we've been developing Ruby In Steel, we've come to realise that there is a widespread misunderstanding about what IntelliSense actually is. Many IDEs offer some kind of simple code-completion, whereby methods can be selected from a drop-down list. Very few IDEs indeed, offer anything approximating to IntelliSense. An IntelliSense system must be capable of displaying appropriate completion lists (that is, only those methods which are available to objects of a specific (...)