From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-09-27T11:22:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Question (no flame)

Arlen Christian Mart Cuss wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 03:18 +0900, Miquel Oliete wrote:
>> Hi there
>>
>> I've been a long long time searching a Ruby IDE for my Ruby coding and
>> finally I have found two of them...and this is the problem.
>>
>> The first one I have found is Netbeans (Java IDE by Sun) and the second
>> one is Eclipse with the Ruby Plugin. Both of them are free software.
>>
>> Could somebody tell me which one is the best one to code in Ruby (both
>> can be executed in Linux and Windows platforms, which are the two
>> platforms I use everyday)
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Best regards
> 
> 
> We recently had a big thread on here about preferred IDEs; you could try
> searching the mail archives going back a little bit for it. ("Best IDE
> for ruby and rails development" - not 100% right, but quite relevant)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Arlen
> 
> 
> 

Well ... I don't use either of them, but I think NetBeans is *much*
lighter weight than Eclipse, so it would get my nod, had I not purchased
Komodo. :) There's another free one you might want to look at, although
it's Linux-only -- KDevelop.