# Development tool review

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-tool-review/144116>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 25, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-tool-review/144116 "2008-07-25T15:36:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-tool-review/144116/1 "2008-07-25T15:36:03Z")

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has any one compared komodo and sapphire on steel editors and reviewed  
them side by side. i am looking to move away from notepad++ and into a  
good development editor.

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**Author:** ![Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@Junkone](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Junkone)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/development-tool-review/144116/2 "2008-07-25T16:04:53Z")

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On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 22:29 +0900, Junkone wrote:

> has any one compared komodo and sapphire on steel editors and reviewed  
> them side by side. i am looking to move away from notepad++ and into a  
> good development editor.

I haven’t compared them head to head, but my impression is that Sapphire  
In Steel is tightly integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and Komodo  
is portable to Windows, Linux, MacOS and some others. Komodo will  
definitely handle all the major dynamic languages, not just Ruby.

## I am very happy with Komodo, by the way. I do mostly Linux Ruby development.

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky  
[ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com](http://ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com)

“A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.” –  
Alfréd Rényi via Paul Erdős