IDE for Windows?

[Fernando]

Hi,

What IDE fro Ruby & ROR would you recommend for windows xp?

Thanks!

 

[aidy]

What IDE fro Ruby & ROR would you recommend for windows xp?

Not used RoR, but I can talk a little about Ruby and IDE's

1. Eclipse
There is a Ruby Development Tool plug-in
http://rubyeclipse.sourceforge.net/

An article relating to this is on developerworks
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-rubyeclipse/

From what I can gather the debugger only supports (at the latest) Ruby

182, and I couldn't run from a network using Eclipse 3.1x

2. Arachno Ruby IDE
Liked the look and feel though its support for Ruby 184 is in beta, and
I got a few crashes with that

3. FreeRide (bundled with the Ruby install)
Crashed when using the debugger. Gave up.

5. Scite
Not an IDE, but text editor. Syntax highlighting plus good integration
with the interpreter

3. http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/
Good debugger, and seems comprehensive though can be very slow. I am
leaning towards this at the moment.

I would imagine most Ruby users use emacs and vi, though if you are
from a windows background, you may not want to predominately use
keystrokes. Also a steep learning curve.

In my opinion there is not a satisfactory Ruby IDE (which I think is a
serious drawback), but they would probably say on this list that they
don't need one (i.e. Ruby users are likely to more experienced
developers with non-traditional philosophies)

Aidy

 

[Huw Collingbourne]

What IDE fro Ruby & ROR would you recommend for windows xp?

If you are using Visual Studio, you may care to look at our Ruby In Steel
environment:

www.sapphiresteel.com

Currently this has editing features (code color/collapse, commenting etc.)
plus integrated debugging. Our forthcoming release will include Rails
specific features such as Integrated project management in Solution
Explorer, project create wizard, script/generate tools, colour coded rhtml
etc.

best wishes
Huw Collingbourne

 

[Steve Conover]

Eclipse with RDT is what everyone's using these days, it's a nice try
but in the end I just can't stand Eclipse.

But nirvana is on the way - the folks at Jetbrains are working on a
Ruby plugin for Intellij. I'm a little sketchy on details but I think
a preview will be out sometime in the next month.

So for now I'm coding in Intellij and just binding ruby.exe as an
External Tool, bound to a key. Throw in some syntax hilighting and
it's as good as anything I've used, and I've used ALL the
specially-purposed ruby ide's.

-Steve

 

[Kenosis]

I've found Komodo on Windows very nice too.

Ken

 

[aidy]

But nirvana is on the way - the folks at Jetbrains are working on a
Ruby plugin for Intellij. I'm a little sketchy on details but I think
a preview will be out sometime in the next month.

Thanks for the info Steve. Will Intellij support Ruby 184x? I ask
because I had problems installing the latest version of Watir with Ruby
182.

Aidy

 

[Steve Conover]

I don't know but it's hard to imagine why they wouldn't. If it's
anything like the java side of things you'll be able to select your
favorite ruby installation.

The latest thread on the subject is here (forum registration required):
http://www.intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=5121416&#5121416

I check up every few days with a search for "ruby" in the forums to see
if anything's happened.

-Steve

 

[Ville Mattila]

Hi,

What IDE fro Ruby & ROR would you recommend for windows xp?

Arachno ruby. Try the latest version (currently 0.6.13) from
http://www.ruby-ide.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=6. It doesn't have
integrated ROR support. But otherwise it is excellent IDE for ruby.

- Ville

 

[Chuck]

Steel looks great! Is there any way this can be made to work on
viosual studio 2005 "express" version??? The free availability of
"express" would alloow quick gropwth of what may be the premier ide for
ruby (IMHO - said without having tried it...

Thanks,
Chuck Brotman

 

[gregarican]

Seconded here. I found Komodo to be nice. Eclipse is a little too big
of a resource beast, and other products I have evaluated just missed
the mark in other areas.

 

[Huw Collingbourne]

Steel looks great! Is there any way this can be made to work on
viosual studio 2005 "express" version???

Unfortunately not. I think MS must have realised that if they let people add
extra languages to the Express editions, it would be fairly easy to to add
in the full suite of languages from the professional editions ;-)

For technical reasons, we are therefore only able to integrate into the
commercial editions. Sorry.

best wishes
Huw
http://www.sapphiresteel.com

 

[jussij]

What IDE fro Ruby & ROR would you recommend for windows xp?

The Zeus IDE:

http://www.zeusedit.com/ruby.html
Note: Zeus is shareware (45 day trial).

It does Ruby syntax highlighting, code folding, class browsing,
macro scripting, intergrated version control, smart indenting,
project/workspace management etc etc.

You can even write Zeus macros using Ruby

Jussi Jumppanen
Author: Zeus for Windows

 

[Gregor Kopp]

Why pay?

You could also use Ride-Me, Rad-Rails, Mondrian, Vim, Emacs, Cream,
Notepad++, RDE and so on.
Rad-Rails btw. is a very good IDE (also for pure ruby programms, not
only rails)

 

[Gregor Kopp]

I've forgot Jedit with the Ruby Plugins.

Why pay?

You could also use Ride-Me, Rad-Rails, Mondrian, Vim, Emacs, Cream,
Notepad++, RDE and so on.
Rad-Rails btw. is a very good IDE (also for pure ruby programms, not
only rails)

 

[gregarican]

For Windows I found fxri interesting. It comes bundled with the Ruby
1.8.4 One-Click Installer. It offers a pane that's a browser of the
standard Ruby class library and looks pretty visually appealing. I
found some bugginess in the fxri GUI would crash at times, but for an
initial project it seems promising.

 

[Lorenzo]

I have also found context (http://www.context.cx/) with the ruby
highlighter to be a reasonable choice. It's lightweight and does
"enough" code highlighting to be useful. I also use it for Laszlo, XML
and C++ editing.

Lorenzo

 

[gnufied]

I find Arachno Ruby IDE, pretty nice...
Install the latest version is 0.6.15 and its really cool for rails
developement.

 

[Seth Thomas Rasmussen]

+1 for jEdit. I have found it to be an awesome choice on Windows in
that jEdit is fast, and its plugin system allows you to make it just as
beefy as you want. It is a "programmer's text editor" so it has a lot
of nice features that are a part of the core package.

One plugin I highly recommend, in addition to the Ruby ones, is the
SuperAbbrevs plugin. It provides basically the same functionality as
the tab-expanded abbreviations from TextMate on Mac that make everybody
go "oooooooooooooh." I believe the latest stable release of that plugin
still requires something like Ctrl+Enter for expansion, but the next
release should enable the same usage of tab as TextMate.

 

[Gregor Kopp]

I've played around a little bit with Ride-Me for now, and i found out
that they HAVE such tab-abbrev's like textmate
In the actual RC you need to download a xml file wich wasn't bundled
with the installer, but with that it makes a very fine Rails IDE.
But I'm with you. Better use a real programming editor for all
purposes than a IDE only for one thing on this planet

Ignore my english, I think its terrible...

 

[Bret Pettichord]

Thanks for the info Steve. Will Intellij support Ruby 184x? I ask
because I had problems installing the latest version of Watir with Ruby
182.

That's odd. Ruby 1.8.2 is what Watir is developed under. This is the
first i've heard of version incompatibilities.

Bret