From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2008-05-20T05:03:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: IDE and FAQ?

I'm going to put in another plug for NetBeans.  I've been using it for
ruby coding since the release candidates for 6.x.  Mostly I use it in
linux, occasional on OSX, and I used to use it a ton on my windows box
at work.  It's very consistent across platforms, and since leaving the
rc stage, very stable.  The big plus for me over eclipse, is the
straightforward subversion and cvs support.

Eclipse is supposed to work across all platforms also.  Though I've
never tried it on OSX, one of my old profs uses it in an OSX lab for
his java programming classes.  The UI is significantly faster than
NetBeans, if you're using a slow machine.  The downside is that comes
across as fragile, ruby support is installed as a plugin, and using
subversion and cvs required jumping through several hoops.

Long long ago, there used to be an ide written in ruby, using fox gui
toolkit called FreeRide.  It was slick & cool, but crashed hourly.  I
miss it, and wonder if it's gotten it's life together enough not to
crash... maybe worth checking out.

--Kyle