From: Phil <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2007-09-04T19:50:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Best IDE for ruby and rails development



> -----Original Message-----
> From: AJay Maurya [mailto:amaurya@brickred.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:52 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Best IDE for ruby and rails development
> 
>      I am still confused which IDE to choose among freeride, aptana,
> radrails ,netbeans which is most feature rich ?

Amount of features != quality of IDE.

My recommendation, as well as of others, download a few IDEs, and test drive
them to find out with which one you are most comfortable. That will be the
best IDE you can find: Yours.

I personally use NetBeans[0], for work across multiple files, and SciTE[1]
for quick-and-dirty scripts, and irb[2] for quick
prototyping/proof-of-concept work.

[0] http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/ruby/ contains the build I use
and frequently update.
[1] http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html comes with the Windows
Ruby-One-Click installer, and is crossplatform (I've used it on Windows and
Linux)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Ruby_Shell Ruby's own shell

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Phillip Gawlowski