# AW: Few questions from a newbye

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/aw-few-questions-from-a-newbye/101687>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 7, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/aw-few-questions-from-a-newbye/101687 "2006-08-07T13:48:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/aw-few-questions-from-a-newbye/101687/1 "2006-08-07T13:48:24Z")

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> 1. Currently my main development platform is Windows, so is there any  
> free yet powerful IDE for Ruby on Windows, with intelisense  
> (auto-complete), debugger, etc - anything you’d expect from a good \>IDE?  
> If not on Windows, is there any like that on other platforms?

Well there is freeRIDE [http://rubyforge.org/projects/freeride/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/freeride/)  
or there is an eclipse plugin called RDT. I myself use arachno, but it  
isn´t free and it´s still beta. On linux you can use kdevelop

> 2.bis. As I understood there are several libraries for building GUI  
> with Ruby, which one is the most portable one across as many \>platforms  
> as possible, as well as allowing to develop applications with a \>modern  
> look (I mean to have as many visual controls as possible - tables,  
> tabs, splitters, etc). Is there any visual designer for that?

Well there are different, i like FOX/fxruby [http://www.fxruby.org/](http://www.fxruby.org/) and  
there exists an gui designer (sorry, i havn´t got the link).