What is the best editor for Ruby?

rubyonrails-talk
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1+ for jedit, simple, nice plugin system, works on win, linux.

/IsBOF

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Juan, I use RadRails on my Windows XP development machine and like it very much. I've tried to run it on my Linux Ubuntu 6.10 machine and have extracted the tar.gz but don't know how to start the program. I expect you laugh at me but would sure appreciate a pointer in this direction. David 775-885-9125

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Cody Skidmore wrote:

ibn tachfine wrote:   

Hi

i m new in Ruby on Rails, i want to use an editor to practise it, so what editor should i use ?

Regards      You might take a look at RBuilder.

http://www.codegear.com/article/36433

The article says it is available for beta testing. It is Eclipse-based and should be a great editor.

I usually like Codegear products :slight_smile: but I'm a bit skeptical about Eclipse :-S though I guess it makes sense for platform neutrality. I wonder what it will cost, though!

Cheers Mohit.

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I for one, use Radrails, i think it's the best one i have tried yet.

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I'd add Monaco font to this list. http://www.gringod.com/wp-upload/MONACO.TTF

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I'm new also and haven't done any serious development work in Ruby on Rails (yet). But I do like Active State's free Komodo Edit:

http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_edit/

It runs on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.

I'm sure I'd like the Komodo IDE even more, but since I don't code for a living, it's hard to justify paying $295 for it.

Sharon

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I find it impossible to justify Komodo's cost and I do code for a living. There are way too many free alternatives to be paying more than a few bucks for a text editor. And even then it's still not a need, but more of a want.