# Public preview of new, commercial ruby ide

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-preview-of-new-commercial-ruby-ide/152493>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 4, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-preview-of-new-commercial-ruby-ide/152493 "2008-11-04T15:55:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sean\_Mehan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sean\_Mehan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sean_Mehan)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-preview-of-new-commercial-ruby-ide/152493/1 "2008-11-04T15:55:33Z")

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FYI.

Jetbrains make IDEA, which is what we use for Java. They have  
announced a public preview of RubyMine, an extension of IDEA for Ruby.  
No opinions on it yet. The former method of using IDEA with the ruby  
plugin was crap. I use textmate on OS X. Your mileage may vary.

best,  
sean

## Sean Mehan Head of Integrated Technologies Learning and Information Services UHI - [www.uhi.ac.uk](http://www.uhi.ac.uk) [www.weblogs.uhi.ac.uk/sm00sm/](http://www.weblogs.uhi.ac.uk/sm00sm/)

## CTREP - Sakai/Fedora/DSpace Integration - [https://camtools.caret.cam.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/jisc-ctrep/home.html](https://camtools.caret.cam.ac.uk/access/wiki/site/jisc-ctrep/home.html)

## GuanXi - a SAML/Shibboleth IdP, SP and Toolkit - [http://guanxi.sourceforge.net/](http://guanxi.sourceforge.net/)

## Sakai - a Free VLE/VRE - [http://sakaiproject.org/](http://sakaiproject.org/)

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