Ruby Editor Preferences

[Former Member]

I was recently at a Emerging Tech conference where there was a lot of sessions on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. To my shock, most of the attendees and presenters were using Macs. I've always been a PC guy only because many of the applications I used, like Baan, only ran on Windows.

My question is, what OS are you running Ruby on and what Editors do you find to be your favorite?

[gregorw · Accepted solution]

Hello,

you can also give Windows + Eclipse + RadRails now http://www.aptana.com/ a try. VI on Linux with Rails is also nice ;-).

Regards

Gregor

[Former Member]

Hi Ryan,

If you're using Windows you can try [Intype|http://intype.info/] (it's a free text-editor similar with [Textmate|http://macromates.com/] on Mac (probably the most used tool in ruby programming). Another alternative (but not free) is [E-TextEditor|http://www.e-texteditor.com/].

I'm using Ubuntu as my OS and I use gedit for Ruby development with some improvements that you can see in this [guide|http://grigio.org/pimp_my_gedit_was_textmate_linux].

[Former Member]

I switched to Mac OS last June and haven't looked back. Unfortunately, I've done nothing with RoR since then.

[Former Member]

Hello Mr. Miller,

i am working 3 Years on Mac OS X and i am programming Ruby / Rails with Textmate. It is really the best choice for this kind of development. In combination with the commandline in OS X you have a very powerful development stack on board.

The Windows Enviroment fits not so well in this microcosmos;)

Time to change..

Best regards

Axel Sachmann

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can try using the 'Instant Rails' for Windows environment which comes packed with all the necessary configurations/web-server, etc

<a href="http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/">http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/</a>

Or esle, you can set up the ruby environment first from http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=167 and then install the ruby gems package manager from <a href="http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126">http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126</a>

Once this is done, you can install Rails by typing in the command

gem install rails --include-dependencies

I use Radrails for editing and development on ROR. If you have worked on the SAP Netweaver Developer Studio or the Eclipse Editor for Java, Radrails will be easy for you.

[former_member583013]

I use Windows -:)

<b>Ruby</b> --> <a href="http://freeride.rubyforge.org">FreeRIDE</a>

<b>Rails</b> --> <a href="http://www.projectrideme.com/">RIDE-ME</a>

Greetings,

Blag.