Best Rails editor

Rails
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Juanma Cabello
[email protected]wrote:

+1 for TextMate on OS X. I’ve used gEdit in GNU/Linux which it’s pretty
great.+1 for InType on Windows platform.

+1 for textmate on OSX
+1 for gedit on linux (I run ubuntu as it happens).
I don’t use either sqlite or mysql, but postgres. on both osx and linux.
(The deployment environment is CentOS 5.2, passenger and postgres.)

Cheers–

Charles

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I enjoyed Aptana for a while, but I’ve recently switched to NetBeans
and have been very impressed. The autocomplete SQL bits are to die for
and the method name refactoring is impressive.

http://jdwyah.blogspot.com/2008/12/netbeans-65-vs-aptana-radrails.html
http://jdwyah.blogspot.com/2008/12/top-17-netbeans-ruby-and-rails-keyboard.html

-j

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+1 for TextMate on OS X. I’ve used gEdit in GNU/Linux which it’s pretty
great.+1 for InType on Windows platform.

2009/3/9 Geekyra [email protected]

On Mar 9, 8:31 pm, Mathieu R. [email protected]

@Phlip, I can work almost exclusively with just a keyboard in
TextMate. There is a keyboard shortcut for just about anything you can
do with a mouse.

On Mar 8, 11:35 am, Colin S. [email protected] wrote:

It depends on your operating system. I am on a Mac and really enjoy
TextMate and the Terminal as my development environment. There are,
obviously, much fancier all-in-one systems, but this one works for
me.

–
Juanma Cabello
Applications Developer

Skype: juanm.cabello
Twitter: juanmac
Weblog: http://juanmacabello.com/

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On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:19 PM, [email protected] [email protected]
wrote:

Can anyone suggest very small Rails IDE with at least Rails intelligence.

http://dima-exe.ru/rails-on-emacs

Has everything Textmate has and then some, for example:

http://dima-exe.ru/assets/2007/4/1/06.png

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

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Deepak wrote:

@Phlip, I can work almost exclusively with just a keyboard in
TextMate. There is a keyboard shortcut for just about anything you can
do with a mouse.

Run a batch of tests. (Ideally that should be 1 keystroke, but sometimes
you
must rotate back to the test tab first.)

Now get some error spew. To ignore it and keep typing, you must use
<Splat+Backtick> to go from the spew window to the editor.

Alternately, try to select one line of spew and go to its file and line
number,
with the keyboard.

I use TextMate all day - hence the venting - and muscle-memory does
indeed help
me forget all its glitches and irritations…

–
Phlip

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I use Cygwin (basically a linux command line environment that runs on
windows) + e (a windows Textmate clone, including textmate bundles) on
a windows machine.

E (http://www.e-texteditor.com) is every bit as good as Textmate, and
under constant development. Free trial, but $34.95 for a lifetime
license, which is very worth it as it’s cheaper than buying a Mac).
Rails and other applicable bundles include snippets of code, syntax
highlighting, and macros that turn Textmate/e into something that
comes pretty close to being a full IDE without all the heaviness and
opacity of an IDE. I have tried Vim a couple of times, but the
learning curve is too steep and I always give up. Textmate/e looks
enough like a regular text editor to let you jump in with both feet
with no experience, but offers a lot of power and versatility to be
discovered as you progress.

E actually includes Cygwin (http://http://www.cygwin.com/) as part of
its install, which is how I got started with it. Since then I’ve found
it’s easier to do your own install of Cygwin. You can re-run setup.exe
(found at their website, above) over and over again to add packages
such as ruby, gems, libssh, git, imagemagick, etc. as you figure out
you need them by just clicking a checkbox. It’s a little confusing at
first, but actually really easy once you get the hang of it.

One of the simple things that makes using Cygwin instead of native
Ruby on windows nice is that you don’t have to type ruby over and over
again, which makes following along with tutorials and examples online
much easier (i.e. “script/server” instead of “ruby script/server”).
Also, I find that Git on Cygwin is much more reliable than the Windows
port of Git (although I haven’t tried in a while, and I’m sure it’s
gotten better). As you get into Rails, you’ll eventually find Git
necessary, so this is something to consider and actually a valid
argument against some of the IDEs with strictly SVN integration. Oh,
and ssh integration into the command line is much easier, too.

Hope all this helps, and good luck. Rails is easy to get interested
in, but hard to master, because it’s such a moving target.

–dhc–