From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-09-05T08:06:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Best IDE for ruby and rails development

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 07:50:36PM +0900, Phil wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----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.

I mostly only use SciTE when trapped on MS Windows -- which raises the
question:

  To what OS platform is this question meant to be relevant?

The answer to the question of what IDE is best (for you) may vary
depending on your OS environment.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
John Kenneth Galbraith: "If all else fails, immortality can always be
assured through spectacular error."