From: Greg Chambers <gregory.w.chambers@...>
Date: 2009-08-12T23:13:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Good editor for Windows Ruby

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So far I have used NetBeans, SciTE, and Notepad++ for writing Ruby on
Windows.  If you are looking for the lightest software with the most bang
for it's weight, then SciTE is your friend.  However, if you need better
debugging support and features you would find in a standard IDE, then I
would try NetBeans.  I know this has been said before already, but I thought
I would add some details to my NetBeans experience.  I didn't find it that
bad to get it up and running.  I just downloaded and installed the JDK and
then installed the version of Ruby MRI.  If you are using Ruby 1.9 of
higher, I would suggest getting the newest version of NetBeans since they've
updated the Ruby 1.9 support and is now fairly solid.  Before this update, I
would only suggest NetBeans to developers still using Ruby 1.8.6.  However,
the NetBeans dev notes do imply some features supported for 1.8.6 hasn't
been modified yet for 1.9, but I don't have specifics for what those are.
 But I am using NetBeans currently for my remote test framework project and
it works fine for testing and debugging programs.  There are two complaints
I do have with NetBeans.  The code completion has left something to be
desired.  It can't handle dynamic typing well so half the time it appears,
it just loads the most basic classes and all their methods, which take too
long, in my opinion, to load.  My second problem with it is how horrible it
performs if I need to run two Ruby applications at once that need to
communicate with each other.  It works... but at least in my cases, not
well.  I might as well be waiting for C code to compile.  But the debugger
is a nice tool to have as well as the built in repository interfaces.
 There's my two cents.
~Greg

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