Ruby editor for linux

J

Juan Zanos

Does anyone have any suggestions for a Ruby editor on Linux? I
usually use TextMate on the mac. I'm running Kubuntu and I've
tried Kate, Emacs, and vi. At least with the default setup I can't
say I'm very productive editing Ruby code with any of them.
 
K

Kyle Schmitt

For quick scripts I'm fond of SciTE. It's slick, no nonsense coding goodness.

Some pros & cons

Pros:
lightweight (both cpu and memory)
color syntax highlighting
code folding
multiple files open as tabs
run & debug ruby (and other languages)
runs pretty much identically in Linux, *BSD, OSX, Windows

Cons:
limited to 10 open tabs
<whine>printing is sometimes flaky</whine>
<whine>occasional crashes (about once every few months)</whine>
<whine>line numbers not on by default</whine>
<whine>can run in windows....</whine>

yes, note the whine tags. They aren't really problems for me.

--Kyle
 
B

Ben Lovell

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Does anyone have any suggestions for a Ruby editor on Linux? I usually
use TextMate on the mac. I'm running Kubuntu and I've tried Kate, Emacs,
and vi. At least with the default setup I can't say I'm very productive
editing Ruby code with any of them.


Although it is still in it's relative infancy Redcar is shaping up nicely
and well worth a look. Particularly since most TextMate bundles are
compatible.

http://redcareditor.com/

Ben
 
K

Kareem Abd-Elmageed

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i use Gedit with some useful plug-in , and it do my work excellent
 
P

Paganoni

le 08/04/2009 18:39, Mark Thomas nous a dit:
I use NetBeans Ruby edition. I'm very happy with it.

And RadRails (standalone or as an Eclipse plugin) is not bad for pure
Ruby projects too... But it's a resource hog !
 
P

Pistos Christou

Juan said:
Does anyone have any suggestions for a Ruby editor on Linux? I
usually use TextMate on the mac. I'm running Kubuntu and I've
tried Kate, Emacs, and vi. At least with the default setup I can't
say I'm very productive editing Ruby code with any of them.

I use Diakonos. Certainly my preference for terminal/tty/ssh editing --
it probably won't supplant GUI editors.

Written entirely in Ruby, extremely configurable, easy to use, and made
especially for people that couldn't or don't want to figure out emacs
and vi(m). If you can do something in Ruby or with a shell one-liner,
you can assign a key to do it in Diakonos.

Homepage: http://purepistos.net/diakonos
Announcements: http://blog.purepistos.net/?s=diakonos
IRC: irc.freenode.net #mathetes
 
M

Michael Satterwhite

I like Bluefish. Easy to use, supports Ruby highlighting (and almost
everything else) and has project support.
 
B

Bosko Ivanisevic

I like Bluefish. Easy to use, supports Ruby highlighting (and almost
everything else) and has project support.

I use Emacs with emacs-starter-kit and Rinari for Rails. But you can
take a look at E-Texteditor (http://www.e-texteditor.com/). It seems
like it is free for linux and it looks a lot on TextMate and you can
find source on github.
 
M

Marc Heiler

I use bluefish since 4 years and although there are many features I
never need, and some things I lack, I consciously stopped to use either
vim or emacs - because i think that this is a plague of linux which
prevents good GUIs from emerging. The hardcore Linux fans will probably
never understand this, but if everyone uses vim or emacs, evolution will
not happen in "GUI-country".
 
P

Pedro Wood

Kyle Schmitt escribió:
For quick scripts I'm fond of SciTE. It's slick, no nonsense coding goodness.

Some pros & cons

Cons:
limited to 10 open tabs
That's only the default configuration, change "buffers=10" on the
configuration file for as many as you want.

Cheers
 
R

Roger Pack

Juan said:
Does anyone have any suggestions for a Ruby editor on Linux? I
usually use TextMate on the mac. I'm running Kubuntu and I've
tried Kate, Emacs, and vi. At least with the default setup I can't
say I'm very productive editing Ruby code with any of them.

There's one written in ruby called arcadia
http://github.com/angal/arcadia/tree/master which will hopefully develop
into something nice :)
That being said, I did learn today that komodo edit has a fuzzy finder
like textmate's [ctrl+shift+o I think].
Cheers!
-=r
 
J

James Britt

Mark said:
I use NetBeans Ruby edition. I'm very happy with it.

I second that, sort of. :)


I much prefer some variation on vim, but I've worked with folks who have
vouched for the powers of Netbeans, folks who also like Textmate.

There is a vi plugin for Netbeans, but it was still not as comfortable
for me as actual vim. However, if emacs or vim are not your choice, the
project management code, completion, refactoring tools, Rake
integration, built-in help, and other Ruby niceties in Netbeans are
really good.

I strongly recommend taking the time to learn vim or emacs, but
otherwise use Netbeans.


--
James Britt

www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys
www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation
www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
 
G

Greg Donald

I use bluefish since 4 years and although there are many features I
never need, and some things I lack, I consciously stopped to use either
vim or emacs - because i think that this is a plague of linux

Anyone who uses Emacs then claims to have "stopped" probably never
really used it much to start with.
which
prevents good GUIs from emerging. The hardcore Linux fans will probably
never understand this,

You don't want to really learn the APIs you develop with, I see.. you
need auto-complete to compensate for lack of experience, I completely
understand.
but if everyone uses vim or emacs, evolution will
not happen in "GUI-country".

Sure it will, we will just ignore your silly time-wasting mouse-driven
apps and continue to use Emacs and vim as if you hadn't even brought
it up.
 
M

Martin DeMello

I use bluefish since 4 years and although there are many features I
never need, and some things I lack, I consciously stopped to use either
vim or emacs - because i think that this is a plague of linux which
prevents good GUIs from emerging. The hardcore Linux fans will probably
never understand this, but if everyone uses vim or emacs, evolution will
not happen in "GUI-country".

So, have you filed any bugs or submitted any feature requests to Bluefish?

martin
 
S

Saji N. Hameed

* Juan Zanos said:
Does anyone have any suggestions for a Ruby editor on Linux? I
usually use TextMate on the mac. I'm running Kubuntu and I've tried
Kate, Emacs, and vi. At least with the default setup I can't say I'm
very productive editing Ruby code with any of them.


http://arcadia.rubyforge.org/ may be worth checking out.

saji
--
Saji N. Hameed

APEC Climate Center
1463 U-dong, Haeundae-gu, +82 51 745 3951
BUSAN 612-020, KOREA (e-mail address removed)
Fax: +82-51-745-3999
 
B

Brian Candler

Marc said:
I use bluefish since 4 years and although there are many features I
never need, and some things I lack, I consciously stopped to use either
vim or emacs - because i think that this is a plague of linux

I agree that life is too short to learn emacs.

Personally I use 'joe'. It's not an IDE, it's just an editor, but it is
small, extremely fast, and is non-modal. That is: when you type 'x', a
letter 'x' appears in your document. This may be a novel concept for
some.

It also has simple default keybindings (not ctrl-this-meta-that), and
on-screen help in case you forget the less frequently used ones.

The top line tells you all you need to know:
Ctrl-K H for help

Regards,

Brian.
 

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