Hi guys,
Can you tell me which are the most popular and widely used IDEs for Ruby, and for Ruby on Rails development ? According to your impressions ? What do you use the most ? Are there different solutions for the different operating systems ?
Thanks,
Krum.
IDE ? Ruby? What the fuck ?)
Our , yes, but i prefer textmate, because windows is not os
Are there different solutions for the different operating systems ?
Yes.
Can you tell me which are the most popular and widely used IDEs for Ruby, and for Ruby on Rails development ? According to your impressions ?
The Mac guys seem to go for Textmate. On Ubuntu and Windows I've used Eclipse and Netbeans, and much prefer Netbeans - been using the last three releases with very few issues. I found Eclipse a bit lardy and slow - although part of that was the lower spec of my old PC, and changing to Xubuntu sped it up a bit.
A few years ago I dabbled with Aptana on Windows, and hated it - couldn't fathom any of the functionality, and might as well have been using Notepad. Hell - I even used Visual Studio for a while - but there was no "Integration" with Ruby... and that was just from my familiarity with it from ASP Classic days.
Of course you can use *any* text editor - but an IDE will speed some stuff up for you (at the risk of you getting lazy and not knowing what is going on under the hood - like when running rake tasks, or server instances).
IDE ? Ruby? What the fuck ?)
...others prefer to use Vi and Emacs (but they fight amongst
themselves so much, they tend to stay out of the way 
Use whatever tools help you Get Things Done.
Our , yes, but i prefer textmate, because windows is not os
IDE ? Ruby? What the fuck ?)
Go on then... in the sliding scale between hardcore text editors (Vi, Edlin, Emacs) and bloaty IDEs, how can people not consider Textmate to be closer to an IDE than a text editor?
One of my colleagues at the moment is a Mac Fanboy, and spits and curses about IDEs and happily sits there batting away with Textmate and all its "integrated" syntax highlighting and autocomplete helpers...
I use RubyMine (the best one IMO), and TextMate for casual editing.
I use Rubymine both on my Linux laptop and my Mac Mini. I find it much better than Aptana, which I used for about a year.
Seems to me that textmate's bundles offer similar possibilities to emacs modes or vim scripts (both of which can add syntax highlighting/ autocompletion similar to what textmate supports)
Fred
I use Netbeans (www.netbeans.org) since 2000 and I'm very happy (it has VERY GOOD Ruby/Rails support)
I use Quanta on my Linux boxes. It's side pane tree view of file- system is best thing which always makes me come back to Quanta after trying other programs. Not to mention that Quanta is a web developers editor with lots of nice things like all sorts of tag and style dialogue windows making work easy.
Krum Bakalsky wrote:
Hi guys,
Can you tell me which are the most popular and widely used IDEs for Ruby, and for Ruby on Rails development ? According to your impressions ? What do you use the most ? Are there different solutions for the different operating systems ?
Thanks,
Krum.
There.. Take a look at this. I am teaching myself Vim, but own a license for Rubymine. If you're going for RoR, I would heartily recommend Rubymine for IDEs and Vim otherwise.
Krum Bakalsky wrote:
Hi guys,
Can you tell me which are the most popular and widely used IDEs for Ruby, and for Ruby on Rails development ? According to your impressions ? What do you use the most ? Are there different solutions for the different operating systems ?
Of all the IDE I've used I hate Netbeans the least. But, note that I don't use any of them for Ruby development. I basically have to use an IDE for my Java work to keep myself sane. I just can't bring myself to say that I "like" any of them though.
As for Ruby and Ruby on Rails, I'm a Textmate users. As far as any debate on whether Textmate could be categorized as an IDE, I don't really care. All I know is that I find it to be an excellent text editor for writing code.
The IDEs that constantly popup suggestions for completion actually drives me a bit nuts. I know a lot of people love that sort of thing. However, I want a text editor that helps me edit text, and then gets out of my way so I can write code. I don't need, or want, it to try to write code for me.
This is what Textmate does for me. I also know a number of developers that prefer VIM, but for very similar reasons. I could see the appeal of being able to stick to one tool (a terminal in this case), but I'm still a lot more comfortable with a terminal window and a Textmate window.
There's one feature I've been missing in Emacs: find all files in a project matching a certain, incrementally typed pattern. And activate this by a single shortcut. Eclipse/Aptana and Textmate do this exceptionally well, I haven't found this functionality in a similarly easy and quick way in Emacs. It might be hidden somewhere, please point it out in case I just didn't find it.
Michael
There are only missing features until you add them.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/emacs-lisp-intro.html
I advise using a text editor and command line tools if you are just learning. An IDE will hide too many important things from you. Plus, you'll spend time dicking around with the IDE and plugins and just trying to get it working that you can be spending building your application or learning Rails and Ruby.
I use Eclipse for Java development. Not because I like it, but because I've used an IDE my whole Java career and can not do without the crutch. I've vowed to not restrict myself like that with Ruby and Groovy.
Yes, I know. Over the past 10+ years I've made a few feeble attempts, however, I never fell as much in love with Emacs and elisp programming to do anything substantial. So, no, this is not really an option for me.
Michael
Vi is my favorite editor on linux (ubuntu karmic koala)
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Hi… Use VIM nice editor for rails … provides all functionalities to do coding.
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I use RubyMine. Disabled all plugins I don't use, it does the job for me.
