# Ruby IDE

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/140070>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 10, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/140070 "2008-06-10T16:19:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/140070/1 "2008-06-10T16:19:47Z")

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Hello guys,

I’ve been trying Ruby for a while in Mac OS X 10.5, but I am working  
with  
Textmate as text editor and running from the command line. I would like  
to  
be able to do more things like debug or running the application with F5  
or  
something like this.

I’ve been trying Apple Xcode and it works good, but it is all prepared  
to  
work Cocoa and not for a Ruby and Rails application for instance.

What IDE would you suggest?

Thanks in advance,

Guillermo

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/140070/2 "2008-06-10T16:49:18Z")

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM, [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> What IDE would you suggest?  
> Netbeans and Aptana are two IDE’s that offer debugging. Netbeans  
> is slow but IMO has the best Ruby support an IDE could hope for. Aptana  
> is  
> faster and lighter but with less features.

Les

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**Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/140070/3 "2008-06-10T16:54:34Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> Hello guys,
> 
> I’ve been trying Ruby for a while in Mac OS X 10.5, but I am working with  
> Textmate as text editor and running from the command line. I would like to  
> be able to do more things like debug or running the application with F5 or  
> something like this.

TextMate can do things like this, and more.

Try pressing Command-R.

On the bottom bar, click the button to the left of “Tab Size” and you  
can see  
the things TextMate can do for you (tab completion, ri lookups, etc).

-Dana

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**Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-ide/140070/4 "2008-06-11T14:58:06Z")

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You are right! Textmate can do some of those things. But I have  
downloaded  
Netbeans as Leslie suggested and I like it. I’ve been debugging already.

Thanks!

Guillermo

From:  
Dana M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
To:  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid (ruby-talk ML)  
Date:  
10.06.2008 16:54  
Subject:  
Re: Ruby IDE

removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> Hello guys,
> 
> I’ve been trying Ruby for a while in Mac OS X 10.5, but I am working  
> with  
> Textmate as text editor and running from the command line. I would like  
> to  
> be able to do more things like debug or running the application with F5  
> or  
> something like this.

TextMate can do things like this, and more.

Try pressing Command-R.

On the bottom bar, click the button to the left of “Tab Size” and you  
can  
see  
the things TextMate can do for you (tab completion, ri lookups, etc).

-Dana