Forum: Ruby on Rails Best IDEs for Ruby on Rails

What are your favorite IDEs for Ruby on Rails?  Are there any good IDEs
that IMMEDIATELY flag problems the way Eclipse does in Android
development?  Given the importance of testing, I'd like to use a tool 
that
immediately and automatically flags problems.

Hi jason, There are several IDEs available for Rails development. You 
can
try Aptana RedRails, JetBrains RubyMine. But most of the developer are
following sublimetext , eMac, TextMate,Gedit,VIM i.e. light weight
software.

Hope this helpful to you.


On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Jason Hsu, Android developer <

On 16 March 2013 04:40, Jason Hsu, Android developer
<jhsu802701@gmail.com> wrote:
> What are your favorite IDEs for Ruby on Rails?  Are there any good IDEs that
> IMMEDIATELY flag problems the way Eclipse does in Android development?
> Given the importance of testing, I'd like to use a tool that immediately and
> automatically flags problems.

Most rails developers (I believe) recommend not to use an IDE, but to
use a good editor with ruby parsing and project management
capabilities (such as jedit, but there are many others) and to use the
command line for the rest.  An IDE just isolates you from the command
line so that when something goes wrong it can be difficult to analyse.
 Also you will generally find it easier to get help if you are using
the command line.

Colin

I've bought RubyMine. It has very convinient tools for working with code
but better work with RM on fast computer.

We are using RubyMine.  if i need something lightweight I use Vim or
TextMate.  RM has the ability to run the server, to debug and step
through code, git integration - lots of great features.  It's a memory
hog (I boosted my Mac up to 16G RAM) but the newer versions have been
better than the older ones.

FWIW

Take a look to Aptana (http://www.aptana.com/) and Komodo (
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide)

I'm using RubyMine and it's great. Here is a video posted by a friend of
Michael Hartl who compares RubyMine to Sublime Text if you're 
interested...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQhf2OTTNk&list=PL...

On Saturday, March 16, 2013 12:40:37 AM UTC-4, Jason Hsu, Android 
developer

Redcar completely suits me as a free highlighting editor with a good 
file
browser and multiple display tabs and side by side editing.

i use RubyMine, it's cool!
it support rails3 and coffeescript, and many feature~

RubyMine 5.0.2 Fabulous IDE, excellent value for money, superb debugging
with code coverage and VCS integration, stack analysis, object tree 
view,
model diagrams, db integration and lots more.

I think the obsession with the command line just overwhelms you with
detail, a bit like looking at the hex generated by assembler.  Do not be
fooled by this obsessive elitism.

Give it a try free, also the support is really quick.

John