# What's your favorite IDE or Editor for Rails?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 13, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ide-or-editor-for-rails/172053 "2009-07-13T23:03:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elricstorm)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ide-or-editor-for-rails/172053/1 "2009-07-13T23:03:23Z")

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Hi all,

I’m trying to put together a comprehensive list of IDEs and Editors for  
Rails that people enjoy using. I want to append this list to the “New  
to Rails” topic I’ve been expanding upon.

If you could take the time to list out your current IDE and editor and a  
brief summary of why you enjoy using it, I would greatly appreciate it.

For those that might not know the difference, and IDE is an “Integrated  
Development Environment” whereas an editor is normally just an editor…

==(IDE List)==

Netbeans 6.5, Netbeans 6.7

Summary: I recently made the move to Netbeans 6.7 which is still not a  
fully developed RC yet. It is incredibly powerful when implemented with  
Rails and supports everything related to Rails.

Pros:

You can perform the following within the IDE without having to use any  
console:

All Rake Tasks  
All Run Tasks  
Autotest, Autospec, Rspec, Unit Test, Code Coverage  
Subversion  
Generate/Destroy (all commands, including those enabled through plugins)  
Internal IRB shell  
Internal Rails Console shell  
Supports all web server environments (mongrel, webrick, glassfish, etc.)  
Internal Debugging of Scripts  
Heavy Javascript support  
Heavy HTML support  
External widgets like jMaki, jQuery forms, calendars, etc.  
Now has a theme that looks just like Textmate (MAC)  
Usable in cross-OS development

Cons:

Memory intensive  
Slower than some IDEs  
Can be a little congested at times  
Some features require that the plugin be installed to use within the IDE

==(Editor List)==

SciTe Editor  
– Simple, concise, easy to use  
– Supports run commands for Ruby  
– Multiple folding and optimizations

That’s my start…

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**Author:** ![elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elricstorm)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ide-or-editor-for-rails/172053/2 "2009-07-13T23:05:45Z")

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As an extra add,

Netbeans more formerly is used with jRuby development. However, I do  
not use jRuby so therefore I cannot comment on that piece within  
Netbeans.

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**Author:** ![elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@elricstorm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/elricstorm)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-favorite-ide-or-editor-for-rails/172053/3 "2009-07-14T00:33:28Z")

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Älphä Blüë wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I’m trying to put together a comprehensive list of IDEs and Editors for  
> Rails that people enjoy using.  
> […]

Please, let’s not start another thread on this. There’s lots of info in  
the list archives if one bothers to search.

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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