From: Dejan Dimic Date: 2008-08-08T16:48:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby IDE On Aug 8, 7:22 am, James Britt wrote: > Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > Hello, > > > Is there a good IDE for Ruby? > > At the moment am using "vi", plan to migrate to TextEditor under GNOME > > Yikes! :) > > Stick with vi (or vim, really) and avail yourself of copious macros and > scripting goodness. > > And get rtags, too.  Helps makes code navigation in vim super bad. > > -- > James Britt > > www.happycamperstudios.com  - Wicked Cool Codingwww.jamesbritt.com          - Playing with Better Toyswww.ruby-doc.org            - Ruby Help & Documentationwww.rubystuff.com           - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff The good Ruby IDE is more about what do you need in particular moment. I have spend long time testing and finding the right one for me. Here is a first moment expressions about that process. I spend my developing times on XP and Ubuntu. The Text Mate is something that I would like to have but I have try some other surrogates. My goal is to have almost the same development environment on both systems. I have start with SciTE and it is sufficient for the some ruby programs of mine. Some time I still use it for a 100 line scripts on XP. Next Eclipse come along and it was good for a while on both OS. Latter Aptana take over and after some updates I somehow fill the need to switch to something new. NetBeans 6 come with a fresh ruby and rails support and I jump right in. I have some glitches and eats memory but it was fresh and interesting. I still use it from time to time. On XP I have try E-Text editor the windows clone of Text Mate. Very good and productive but only on windows. Now I am back to, my not mentioned love so far, VIM. Somehow it is present on all systems and getting around with it can be a life saver. It takes time to accommodate but it worth it and it is sufficiently productive. The better you know it the greater Kung-Fu kata you can perform. Sooner then latter you will find your self in production VPS SSH terminal trying to fix something and VIM is there as your survival swiss knife. If this could have some point it can be: you should try to find the IDE that suits you needs and to invest time to try the others as well but always be prepare to use just a plain text editor and command prompt.