Best IDE for Ruby

Rails
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I’m absolutely surprised that nobody mentions Komodo whenever this
permathread re-emerges. I’ve tried several Ruby IDEs, and find Komodo to
be the best by far. Perhaps the fact that it’s not free mean it isn’t
making anyone’s list? I’d say if you value your time, it’s a small price
to pay.

My $0.02.

  • Mark.
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Agreed Mark. I’ve been very, very happy with Komodo … especially with
the new features they’ve been previewing in the publicly available
alphas such as autocomplete, support for user-defined mixed languages
including erb, snippets/macros, etc. So far it seems to be the closest
thing I have found to textmate on Windows.

Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR wrote:

I’m absolutely surprised that nobody mentions Komodo whenever this
permathread re-emerges. I’ve tried several Ruby IDEs, and find Komodo to
be the best by far. Perhaps the fact that it’s not free mean it isn’t
making anyone’s list? I’d say if you value your time, it’s a small price
to pay.

My $0.02.

  • Mark.
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cant’t understand this textmate hype. for sure its a great editor.
but great editors are present on other platforms for a long long time.
but thats another topic.

i think radrails is a great tool for nix and win developers.

if yuo like the textmate look and feel, take a look here:
http://drnicwilliams.com/2006/08/08/textmate-theme-for-radrails/

if you like the textmate templates, take a look here:
http://devillecompanies.org/2006/10/08/radrails-textmate-templates/

the only contra is the memory consumption of radrails. but ok, its an
ide not an editor. :wink:

another nice feature is the eclipse given plugin capability.
you should download aptana and integrate radrails as plugin. really
great.

add other plugins as needed. so i think the best IDE on all systems is
RadRails.
hope for more RadRails features to come.

cheers

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dweinand,

some functionalities of the new version 0.8 are listed here:

wrote:

cant’t understand this textmate hype. for sure its a great editor.
but great editors are present on other platforms for a long long time.
but thats another topic.

i think radrails is a great tool for nix and win developers.

if yuo like the textmate look and feel, take a look here:
http://drnicwilliams.com/2006/08/08/textmate-theme-for-radrails/

if you like the textmate templates, take a look here:
http://devillecompanies.org/2006/10/08/radrails-textmate-templates/

the only contra is the memory consumption of radrails. but ok, its an
ide not an editor. :wink:

another nice feature is the eclipse given plugin capability.
you should download aptana and integrate radrails as plugin. really
great.

add other plugins as needed. so i think the best IDE on all systems is
RadRails.
hope for more RadRails features to come.

cheers

25

I have used Eclipse which is a must for Java development, but I haven’t
missed it when doing Ruby or Rails, everything is just simpler, I don’t
need
it.

I used to really like jEdit, great regular expression support, syntax
highlighting, folding, good xml editing, etc.

I still prefer the power that is emacs. Emacs feels closer to the OS and
I
love being able to use a shell right from in emacs, its lighter weight
than
the other things and doesn’t require java to be installed. It also is
available on most unix systems that I log into (as well as having a port
for
windows and every other OS), so I am right at home where ever I am. It
has
been around forever and for good reason, it gets the job done and is
infinitely customizable.

I won’t say that I’ll never go back to using a heavier IDE, they have
their
uses, but for everyday work right now in Ruby and Rails, emacs gets it
done.

Jeff

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Jose,

thx for the tip. but i’m looking everyday at radrails.org :slight_smile:
and i’m waiting every day for the new release. :wink:

they are doing a great job.

Jose P. schrieb:

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On Oct 19, 11:20 am, Huw C.
[email protected] wrote:

structures one tab at a time). In the current beta of the Developer
such formats or for other technologies, we shall do our best to provide
it.

best wishes
Huw
SapphireSteel Softwarehttp://www.sapphiresteel.com
Ruby Development For Visual Studio 2005

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Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

i know this thread is kinda old, but you could check out scribes.
scribes has editable snippets like in the text mate vids. i like it a
lot. Scite would be my second favorite

sk