# Easy Eclipse **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 21, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-eclipse/110028 "2007-07-21T17:13:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-eclipse/110028/1 "2007-07-21T17:13:12Z")
Is it just me or does anyone else find ‘Easy Eclipse Rad Rails’ more of a hinderance than a help? I remember when IDEs made things easier not harder. Turbo C where are you now? Fred ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-eclipse/110028/2 "2007-07-21T17:31:41Z")
Fred wrote: > Is it just me or does anyone else find ‘Easy Eclipse Rad Rails’ more > of a hinderance than a help? > > I remember when IDEs made things easier not harder. > Turbo C where are you now? > > Fred haha, I agree. I actually prefer to use Komodo for my IDE. It has a cool regex tool with shortcuts and stuff, then it has the auto finish like most IDE’s. If your on a windows machine, there is a program called ‘e’ which is supposed to be the “textmate” of windows. If your on a mac, night as well just use textmate. ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-eclipse/110028/3 "2007-07-21T17:54:18Z")
Windows? Good God No! Wouldn’t entertain the concept. I’m Linux through and through, have been since Slakware and kernel 1.2.13. I’m currently using rails from the command line with vi as my editor. [Please don’t mention emacs as I don’t want to blamed for starting an epic flame war!] I really would welcome a decent IDE but simply don’t have the time to try out another right now. Fred On Jul 21, 4:31 pm, Jeremy W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-eclipse/110028/4 "2007-07-22T23:12:43Z")
there’s vim package for rails development you can try it. also netbeans 6.0 has also nice support for RoR. i use it now and it’s really nice for this time. netbeans also have linux version. Fred wrote: > Windows? Good God No! > > Wouldn’t entertain the concept. I’m Linux through and through, have > been since Slakware and kernel 1.2.13. > > I’m currently using rails from the command line with vi as my editor. > [Please don’t mention emacs as I don’t want to blamed for starting an > epic flame war!] I really would welcome a decent IDE but simply don’t > have the time to try out another right now. > > Fred > > On Jul 21, 4:31 pm, Jeremy W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@fred](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/fred)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/easy-eclipse/110028/5 "2007-07-22T00:17:01Z")
I would actually use Linux for my dev box, like I usually do, but I like e too much to switch. Snippets make me far too productive to switch. If e comes out with a Linux version, I’ll switch in a heartbeat.