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What's a good and free Ruby editor for Windows? Thanks!

+5  A: 

Netbeans is Free and Good

S.Mark
I dont like Netbeans his intellisense is the slowest i ever saw !
Niklaos
Oracle has bought Sun and therefore netbeans, and Oracle said that dynamic languages (Ruby, Python, PHP) are "going to be supported by the community" i.e. not by Oracle. Therefore Ruby support on netbeans may be uncertain.
blokeley
As uncertain as emacs and vi!
Ken
+2  A: 

Get yourself Notepad++ it's an excellent lightweight text editor which is useful for lots of languages including ruby. There's tonnes of plugins too. I recommend you get the 'explorer' plugin which gives you a dockable directory explorer.

ro
+3  A: 

don't be a wimp, use emacs.

banister
Nano for the win!
Time Machine
Emacs is a good option on Linux not on windows ... On Windows use Notepad++.
Niklaos
Emacs works fine on Windows. For those of us with the Emacs key sequences programmed into our fingers, it's the only way to edit code when stuck on that platform.
Donal Fellows
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RubyMine 2 is not free (88 Euros) but it's clearly the better Ruby IDE i ever used !

Niklaos
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Aptana RADRails is eclipse tunned for ruby and rails. It's free too.

Koder_
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Emacs would be good if he asked for an OS. Now go get gvim.

kizzx2
No processes or scheduler, no filesystems, no device drivers, no security model, memory protection, paging, multitasking, ... what exactly does Emacs have in common with an OS?
Ken
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SciTE isn't a bad editor. Did you get it with ruby?

Andrew Grimm