Ruby for Newbie?!

[Kragen Sitaker]

Scrumpy <reply at in_newsgroup.tks> writes:
> 2/ IDE.
> Python: Boa Constructor, Pythonwin, IDLE.

Don't forget Emacs, the most widely used IDE for Python.

> RUBY: Practical Ruby (basic IDE for Windows). Is there a Linux IDE for 
> Ruby?

Ruby Emacs support is distributed with ruby and integrated into
XEmacs.  It doesn't look like Emacs ruby-mode includes the IDE
features of Emacs python-mode, like integration into an interactive
Python shell and interaction with stack dumps.

But I don't know Ruby.