Anything but Aptana

Rails
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I’ve tried a few and love vim but Netbeans is definitly the business .

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I have tried quite a few myself.I will say again, VIM is the best option
if
one isn’t already a master at using Emacs.
If your confortable with Emacs, then there are no questions about Emacs.
But otherwise, I don’t think there is anything better than VIM with a
bunch
of plugins, if you are able to find and customize the .vimrc file
properly,
you won’t even have much of a learning curve…

Thanks & Regards,
Dhruva S…

Charles de
Gaullehttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html

  • “The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
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Rubymine (RubyMine: The Ruby on Rails IDE by JetBrains) would have been the best
money ever spent for Windows, but I got it via a free coupon.

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My personal favorite is emacs with emacs-rails package. Well worth a
look if you want a development environment that you can carry with you
through time and computer changes. For example, I started using emacs
as a C development platform on VMS in 1979 (DEC Vax - prehistory) and
have used it under unix, windows, and osx to develop code in many
different languages.

Check out this site to get started: http://dima-exe.ru/rails-on-emacs

I’ve also tried Vim, NetBeans, jEdit, and ScITE but emacs remains my
editor of choice.

Risky religious rant here…

On a slightly different note, I think you ought to take a look at one
of the many linux variants (or osx if you’re shopping for a new
computer). While it is true that Microsoft has desktop dominance this
is due more to clever marketing and a historic middle management
mantra (Nobody ever got fired for purchasing IBM) than to technical
innovation or excellence.

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I’m gonna throw another +1 on Emacs.

Emacs has an extremely high learning curve, but is oh so worth it. As
someone else said, you’ll love NOT having to use your mouse for
anything.

But to actually answer your question, on Windows, InType (http://
intype.info/) would suit you very well. It’s almost a complete
TextMate clone.

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+1 for RubyMine…worth way more than the $50 I spent on it.

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If you are interested in using emacs with Rails and Ruby, it’s
probably worth looking at Rinari, too:

http://rinari.rubyforge.org/

Also, check out the various emacs-starter-kits and dotfiles on github:

I have my own, but it is Aquamacs (read OSX) specific:

http://github.com/walter/aquamacs-emacs-starter-kit/tree

Cheers,
Walter

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RVince wrote:

Not trying to get into a “What’s a good IDE” here, BUT…On
Windows…RadRails never cut it. Under Aptana, it’s a terrible joke,
and I’m sick of losing so much time waiting not only for this thing to
initialize, but the hanging and crashing I go through is killing me.

Please, someone…point me to a decent, lightweight IDE. All i want
is syntax coloring. I’m thinking notepad++ here. Anyone have a better
solutions? Thanks. RVince

You don’t need an IDE for Rails, just a good editor. I highly recommend
KomodoEdit. (I love Emacs in console environments, but I prefer
graphical editors when a GUI is available. Oddly enough, I hate xemacs.)

I also highly recommend not using Windows.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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Go e texteditor - Textmate for windows http://www.e-texteditor.com/

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Dhruva S.
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