From: "Rob ." <rob.02004@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T00:35:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows

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Paul, jEdit + the Ruby Editor Plugin meets many of your needs:
 - good syntax highlighting (yes)
- code completion (yes)
- auto indentation (yes)
- tabbed view of open files (yes)
- project view or a folder view of files (yes)
- works for .rb and .rhtml files (yes, I think with a bit of config work)
- debugging (no)
- support for rails (no) - what do you mean by this?

If you get hooked on unit tests as a better substitute for a debugger, then=
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jEdit's looking pretty good. I'm going to be restarting development on the=
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jEdit Ruby plugin soon. Feel free to drop me a line with what you think is=
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missing, you never know it may be there by the end of the year.
 Rob
http://www.jedit.org/ruby/
 On 9/7/05, Paul Dix <paulcdix@gmail.com> wrote:=20
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> I've just started playing around with ruby on rails and by association,
> ruby itself. One of the things I've been trying to get set to my
> liking is a decent development environment. I'm working in Windows and
> I'm just not sure what set of tools will work decently (alternatively,
> I'd develop in Linux if the tools are better there). Some of the
> things I'm looking for:
> - good syntax highlighting
> - code completion
> - auto indentation
> - debugging
> - tabbed view of open files
> - project view or a folder view of files
> - works for .rb and .rhtml files
> - support for rails
> I've spent a little time looking at the following options:
> - EditPlus
> - UltraEdit
> - gvim
> - SciTE
> - jEdit
> - ArachnoRuby
> None of these seem to quite meet all those needs. Four main things I
> can't seem to find together are:
> - debugging
> - support for rails
> - code completion
> - support for rhtml files
> I read through and gave a brief try to debugging with breakpoint as
> outlined here:
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowtoDebugWithBreakpoint
> I'm obviously too much of a ruby n00b at this point to make good use of
> this.
> I noticed some of these support basic code completion with the core
> ruby language, but that's it.
> I see that everone working on Mac loves TextMate but for me that just
> isn't an option.
> Does anyone have suggestions on what I should be looking at? Can you
> give me very specific information about setup and tools? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
>

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