# About Editors **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 13, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-editors/137461 "2008-05-13T12:03:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kittu21](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/85e7bf/32.png) [@kittu21](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kittu21)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-editors/137461/1 "2008-05-13T12:03:58Z")
Hi, I have been working on C# from the past two and half years and as a ruby enthusiast i would like to dig in to it to the extent possible for me…as of know just a newbie and interested in knowing the best editor to work with Ruby… is it Netbeans? or Rad Rails? or may be some other editor…can any one of you people please suggest me the best editor to work with… thanks in advance! kittu. ---
**Author:** ![kittu21](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/85e7bf/32.png) [@kittu21](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kittu21)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/about-editors/137461/2 "2008-05-13T12:41:07Z")
The best editor is the one you like and know best. This is a _lovely_ question and I personally ask myself this q at least once a year. I used to like netbeans (but it was slow and bulky, many years ago). I used to like textpad (and still might but am trying to stay on linux). Vim is excellent and has excellent code completion for ruby and other (ruby) plugins, and can be configured to do anything you like, but requires weeks of learning and modifying for most. Kate is excellent editor, is very easy to start using and has nice code completion, but is only available for KDE. Great for ruby. JEdit is excellent cross platform code-tool, but isnt quite as fast and stable as vim in my experience. Very nice plugins. Waiting for the pre to hit stable version. Scite is lightweight and clean and has code completion and ruby compilation built in. All free as in open source. YMMV. —Casimir P. kittu T. kirjoitti: