From: James Dinkel Date: 2008-08-11T14:37:54+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby IDE I've recently discovered EasyEclipse. They have old versions of the RadRails and RDT from before Aptana ruined them (I'm not sure, but they may have even forked the old versions and are doing bugfixes and updates to them). There is a known bug when creating a new Rails project - the wizard does not close (just click cancel after it's created) and Webrick and Mongrel servers are not created (they are VERY easy to create manually). This is really just an annoyance and still way better than dealing with all the Aptana junk. If you liked the old pre-Aptana RadRails, but want something updated, then EasyEclipse is the way to go. Personally, I don't download the whole EasyEclipse for Ruby and Rails distribution, I just download the bare Eclipse Platform Runtime and add the RadRails and RDT plugins from EasyEclipse to it. This gives a nice fast and slim install at about 80megs which is also easily portable if you want to copy the folder to a USB flash drive. Since it's Eclipse, you can also add from the plethora of Eclipse plugins to suit your needs. My problem with Netbeans is it was too big, a little slower than Eclipse, definately not portable, and I missed the old RadRails layout. If you are not already spoiled by the old RadRails and don't mind the size, then you may like starting out with Netbeans. For just a file editor, Notepad++ is ok for Windows. I liked Notepad2 better, but it only has Ruby support in a patched version which is quite out-of-date. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.