# Dev tool **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 2, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dev-tool/187941 "2010-05-02T22:41:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mlle)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dev-tool/187941/1 "2010-05-02T22:41:04Z")
Can anyone suggest a development tool for RoR? How is the plugin for Eclipse? ---
**Author:** ![Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mlle)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dev-tool/187941/2 "2010-05-02T22:42:14Z")
I like RubyMine - it’s not free, but worth it, IMO. Larry ---
**Author:** ![Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mlle)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dev-tool/187941/3 "2010-05-02T23:07:59Z")
I’d suggest TextMate if you had a Mac, but then I guess you wouldn’t be asking 🙂 So I suppose you are on Windows or Linux. In which case I recommend vim :). This is what I’m using and I do have a Mac (actually 3 of them 🙂 I used TextMate for a couple of years but eventually got drown back to vim. I just can’t give up the power it has. My .vimrc setup with a lot of rails related goodies can be found at > **[GitHub - astrails/dotvim: An attempt at The Ultimate Vim Configuration™ with...](https://github.com/astrails/dotvim)** > > An attempt at The Ultimate Vim Configuration™ with focus on Rails development. DEPRECATED, SEE https://github.com/vitaly/dotvim2 - GitHub - astrails/dotvim: An attempt at The Ultimate Vim Configura... There is a README with most useful ---
**Author:** ![Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mlle)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dev-tool/187941/4 "2010-05-03T18:21:34Z")
+1 for Vim and rails.vim plugin. ---
**Author:** ![Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mlle)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dev-tool/187941/5 "2010-05-02T23:11:30Z")
Aptana RadRail,Netbeans i’m using these 2 for my dev. pretty cool for me try it. ---
**Author:** ![Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mlle)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dev-tool/187941/6 "2010-05-05T14:27:23Z")
Mlle wrote: > Can anyone suggest a development tool for RoR? How is the plugin for > Eclipse? Don’t bother with Eclipse, or indeed with any big IDE – Rails doesn’t benefit from their use. Just use a good text editor (my preference is KomodoEdit). ## Best, Marnen Laibow-Koser [http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mlle)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 9:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dev-tool/187941/7 "2010-05-06T09:51:35Z")
I had used Eclipse + Aptana plugin, but I prefer NetBeans. Regards, Almir. * * * [http://zona8.com.br](http://zona8.com.br) \*Almir Campos \* _tech.zona8.com.br almircampos.zona8.com.br_ - Cel: 55 (11) 8980.9500 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid \* - - 2010/5/2 Mlle [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mlle)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dev-tool/187941/8 "2010-05-06T15:34:38Z")
I have used NetBeans for the last 1.5 years. It has nice support for Rails/Ruby. I would suggest looking at NetBeans if you want an IDE. That being said, make sure you understand what the IDE is doing for you behind the scenes - I see too many developers who know how to invoke stuff via an IDE but don’t really know what is actually being done in the application framework. ---
**Author:** ![Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Mlle](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mlle)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dev-tool/187941/9 "2010-05-06T12:53:03Z")
For java i like eclipse, but i don’t use an ide for rails. In mac i use textmate plus shell and in linux i use gedit plus shell. And man, in my opinion these are very powerfull tools for development with ruby (and rails). Ricardo Valeriano On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Almir Campos (Zona8) \<