Best IDE for ruby and rails development

[AJay Maurya]

Hi All

Could anyone tell me which is best IDE for ruby and rails development.
at least we can know features of IDEs that other ruby people are using







cheers

Jeet

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[Arthur Murauskas]

Hi All

Could anyone tell me which is best IDE for ruby and rails development.
at least we can know features of IDEs that other ruby people are using

http://aptana.com or eclipse with aptana and rad rails plugins.

Best regards,
Arthur Murauskas.

 

[Mohit Sindhwani]

Hi All

Could anyone tell me which is best IDE for ruby and rails development.
at least we can know features of IDEs that other ruby people are using







cheers

Jeet

Increasingly, I'm using NetBeans for Ruby and RoR. On the other hand,
for Windows apps using Ruby, I'm using WideStudio (it supports a lot of
other platforms too).

 

[dima]

Increasingly, I'm using NetBeans for Ruby and RoR. On the other hand,
for Windows apps using Ruby, I'm using WideStudio (it supports a lot of
other platforms too).

As said so many times Aptana and eclipse on XP and Linux.

 

[AJay Maurya]

I am still confused which IDE to choose among freeride, aptana,
radrails ,netbeans which is most feature rich ?

http://aptana.com or eclipse with aptana and rad rails plugins.

Best regards,
Arthur Murauskas.

Cheers
Jeet

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[AJay Maurya]

I am still confused which IDE to choose among freeride, aptana,
radrails ,netbeans which is most feature rich ?

http://aptana.com or eclipse with aptana and rad rails plugins.

Best regards,
Arthur Murauskas.

Cheers
Jeet

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The POP3 server service depends on the SMTP server service, which failed
to start because of the following error: The operation completed
successfully. -- Windows NT Server v3.51

 

[Mohit Sindhwani]

IDEs are personal. You can use anything that works for you. I'd
recommend trying out a couple. For the longest time, i was just using a
text editor with syntax highlighting for Ruby.

Cheers,
Mohit.
9/4/2007 | 5:59 PM.

 

[Phil]

-----Original Message-----
From: AJay Maurya [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:52 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Best IDE for ruby and rails development

I am still confused which IDE to choose among freeride, aptana,
radrails ,netbeans which is most feature rich ?

Amount of features != quality of IDE.

My recommendation, as well as of others, download a few IDEs, and test drive
them to find out with which one you are most comfortable. That will be the
best IDE you can find: Yours.

I personally use NetBeans[0], for work across multiple files, and SciTE[1]
for quick-and-dirty scripts, and irb[2] for quick
prototyping/proof-of-concept work.

[0] http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/ruby/ contains the build I use
and frequently update.
[1] http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html comes with the Windows
Ruby-One-Click installer, and is crossplatform (I've used it on Windows and
Linux)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Ruby_Shell Ruby's own shell

 

[Jonas Roberto de Goes Filho (sysdebug)]

I am still confused which IDE to choose among freeride, aptana,
radrails ,netbeans which is most feature rich ?

Netbeans 6.0 is a better IDE. Have support to Ruby On Rails and Ruby.

 

[stephen O'D]

Netbeans 6.0 is a better IDE. Have support to Ruby On Rails and Ruby.

Emacs is always worth a shout - works the same on windows, linux,
terminal and OS X and has good Ruby and Rails support. There is a bit
of messing about to get it working though, but you can always read my
tutorial: http://sodonnell.wordpress.com/the-emacs-newbie-guide-for-rails/
if you are interested!

 

[Kyle Schmitt]

Not to divert the flow of thought at all but...
has anyone successfully been able to integrate camping with NetBeans
for development? I was playing with it this weekend, and ended up
resorting to manually running camping from a terminal, instead of
being able to launch it from NB.
Hopefully it's just because I'm a netbeans noob!

--Kyle

 

[Bill Plummer]

This question comes up from time to time. My vote, if you have been
using Microsoft Visual Studio, is the Ruby In Steel plugin for VS. It's
not free, but well worth the price.

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/

Take a few minutes and view the videos if you want to see the product in
action.

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-Movies

Bill

 

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

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Hi All

Could anyone tell me which is best IDE for ruby and rails development.
at least we can know features of IDEs that other ruby people are using







cheers

Jeet

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It is only people of small moral stature who have to stand on their
dignity.

Well ... everyone has their own favorite, so you'll get lots of answers.
Most of the ones I've seen recommended here are open-source, but I think
you'll find that quite a few people who use Macs think of TextMate as
more of an IDE than a text editor and would recommend it over the open
source ones. My own personal favorite is Komodo, but that's neither open
source nor free.

As far as a feature comparison chart is concerned, I can't recall seeing
one anywhere. Eclipse (with plugins) is probably the most full-featured
of the open-source IDEs.
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[Rick DeNatale]

http://aptana.com or eclipse with aptana and rad rails plugins.

Personally I currently use vim with a bunch of plugins.

I tried out radrails this weekend, but found that it just performs
horribly on the hardware I've got available. Part of me thinks I
SHOULD be using it since I actually worked on Eclipse and it's
predecessors at IBM, but...

I've got my eyes on a Macbook, hopefully in the not too distant
future, so I'll probably follow the textmate herd.

 

[Jeremy Woertink]

Hi All

Could anyone tell me which is best IDE for ruby and rails development.
at least we can know features of IDEs that other ruby people are using

cheers

Jeet

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It is only people of small moral stature who have to stand on their
dignity.

I guess it depends on which OS your using. If your using MacOSX then I
might recommend textmate, for windows there is a IDE that is very
similar to textmate called "e" which works ok. The one I use and prefer
though for windows, or linux is Komodo. It has a very nice color scheme
editor and it allows you to make snippets for code short cuts along with
a really cool Regexp helper tool. It also does smart formatting and auto
completing.


~Jeremy

 

[Eric Promislow]

I do all my Rails programming in Komodo as well, but I'm also one
of the developers on it. So when I see something isn't working well
I can turn around quickly and put out a fix. The team has also
implemented automatic updates, using the same mechanism that
Firefox and Thunderbird use, since it's a Mozilla app as well.

Komodo Edit is a free-as-in-beer version, and has all the basic
Rails support except for a debugger. And while it isn't an
open source project, most of it is implemented in Python,
JavaScript, CSS, and XUL, and we ship all that, and accept
patches.

- Eric

 

[barabba]

I use always Arachno IDE for ruby and also for rails development. It
has a big potential but supports mainly windows (linux version is too
old). Eclipse is for me too big. Vim and Emacs are complex to setup.

 

[Ari Brown]

shell and vi

Bah! echo and an empty file

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~Ari
"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it" --1337est
man alive

 

[Phil]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ari Brown [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:00 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Best IDE for ruby and rails development

shell and vi

Bah! echo and an empty file

Back in my day, we didn't have echos. And we liked it that way.

 

[Todd Johnson]

They released a new version of the ruby plugin for intellij today. It
adds a lot of functionality/features and comes with the stability and
usability of intellij.

you can download a trial of the next version of intellij here
http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/Selena+EAP

The ruby plugin (v.0.2) can be found here
http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/RUBYDEV/IntelliJ+IDEA+Ruby+Plugin

make sure to give it a try. I find when doing rails apps i can "develop
with pleasure!"

Todd