Ruby console alternative for IRB (Windows)

Question

I am looking for some free light-weight GUI alternative for IRB console on windows. What I whould like to see:

1. Area to write a script (so I can edit, run, edit...)

• Command line to play with current variables
• Output window to see results
• Intellisence
• Breakpoints/debugging is a plus

Actually, some thing similar to powershell_ise.exe whould be great.

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PS I am not looking for IDE (NetBeans, Aptana, etc.)

Answer 1

How does SciTE fail? Kinda curious because it feels like what you are looking for if you are working from a file. Ctrl-F5 executes, etc.

Answer 2

Have a look at e-texteditor.

It isn't a full IDE, but it allows you to execute Ruby code, and either put the input inline, after a #=> comment, or into a new window.

You get some of what you want, not so much the debugger and console. But the run-inline thing helps out a bit there.

It is based on TextMate, which is just fantastic. But OS X only. Oh, and it costs money.