My text editor of choice for PHP work is Panic's Coda. But for Ruby on Rails, its autocomplete feature is continuously in my way and ROR's standardization on 2 space tabs does not play well with Coda's settings. I've been going back to TextMate for ROR work, but was wondering if there were better options.
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You could try Aptana RadRails, which is free and based on Eclipse (although it seems slightly more stable for pure RoR than Eclipse-with-RadRails-plugin. I've only used it on Windows, but it does seem to have a Mac download available.
Chris
2010-04-14 11:14:06
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A lot of Ruby on rails developers use TextMate, you can see a lot of in several screencast. But there are a lot of use of MacVim too.
In this twice editor, there are a lot of plugin to help you coding with rails.
In IDE, there are Netbeans too.
shingara
2010-04-14 11:30:16
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If you think it's worth to give it a try, in my opinion TextMate is the best but it's not free.
The integrated boundles work very well for Ruby and Ruby On Rails.
There are also boundles for Subversion/Git/etc. which can be very usefull in development.
Truemilk
2010-04-14 11:33:33
As I indicated, I am already back using TextMate, which is the overwhelming favorite here. I prefer the flexibility of a text editor over an IDE, so I think I will just stick with this. Coda has the convenience of integrated ftp and command line, but given the other frustrations, I think I prefer TextMate for Rails.
kingjeffrey
2010-04-14 15:30:09
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I'd recommend using Textmate, it has nice bundles for Rails and offers a great interface. There's even a peepcode episode about it.
I wouldn't use an IDE for Rails, but if you really want to, both Netbean and Aptana are worth looking at.
marcgg
2010-04-14 11:35:35
@adnan Because you don't really need one. It's not like C# where, without intelisense, you're totally lost. After some time using radrails then netbeans I realized that I wasn't gaining time. A simple editor is enough
marcgg
2010-04-14 16:21:57
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I use textmate and I love it. I recommend installing ProjectPlus plugin that adds svn and git support to textmate drawer ( http://ciaranwal.sh/2008/08/05/textmate-plug-in-projectplus ).
If you are searching for full IDE NetBeans looks very good: (http://netbeans.org/features/ruby/index.html)
Matej Puntar
2010-04-14 11:38:39
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+1 for Textmate and Command Line
I used Eclipse/Radrails for a year and it totally sucks.
Winfield
2010-04-14 12:37:08