What's a good Ruby development environment for the Mac?

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What's a good Ruby development environment for the Mac?

I used to develop Java on the mac and it worked out well, combo of just using the terminal and IntelliJ. What are good tools that run on the mac for doing Ruby development

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I use emacs, which has a fine ruby mode.

Bryan Oakley 2009-04-13 18:41:36

+1 to balance out the -1... this is a pretty subjective question, and many folks use emacs for development on the mac

Jarret Hardie 2009-04-13 18:47:36

-1 because it's 2009. :P

Matt Grande 2009-04-13 19:00:08

+1 because emacs works just fine in 2009, and has better support for a wider variety of development tasks than almost any other editor.

Brian Campbell 2009-04-13 20:08:33

aquamacs is a good option on the mac if you aren't already a hardcore emacs nerd. It has normal mac key bindings out of the box

jshen 2009-04-14 15:57:56

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Most of the Rails people develop on Macs and use TextMate. As a result, TextMate has great support for Ruby and Rails, and is probably the best text editor to use for developing Ruby code on the Mac.

mipadi 2009-04-13 18:42:30

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TextMate is an excellent editor, and is probably the best editor for Ruby code, as mipadi said. For an open source alternative, you could also try Smultron. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it does the job quite nicely.

htw 2009-04-13 18:43:58

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I love TextMate although have been flirting with NetBeans. If you like a full-featured (aka bloated) IDE, give it a try. Pretty nice: http://wiki.netbeans.org/Ruby

Matt Rogish 2009-04-13 18:44:00

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Netbeans is a fantastic choice with lots of good features for debugging, refactoring, db browsing, source control and lots more.

Brian 2009-04-13 18:45:43

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I'll second/third the Textmate recommendation. Calling it a text editor is doing a bit of disservice. Start off with this PDF that has some useful ruby/rails textmate shortcuts

AdminMyServer 2009-04-13 18:49:33

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You have used IntelliJ already? You should probably take a look at the Ruby/Rails integration. It supports things like debugging, code analysis and refactorings, etc.

Siegfried Puchbauer 2009-04-13 18:52:53

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JetBrains (the people behind IntelliJ) are working on an IDE specifically for Ruby on Rails: RubyMine.

Hank Gay 2009-04-13 20:01:33

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if you like vim, adding onto it with fuzzyfilefinder (http://github.com/jamis/fuzzy_file_finder/tree/master) and rails.vim (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1567) plugins provides a really nice experience.

if you don't like vim, textmate is a decent text editor.

Terry 2009-04-13 20:14:44

TextMate is my favorite, but if you want code completion NetBeans is the best choice (Aptana/RedRails is outdated). Nightly builds of NB has a lot nicer OSX look and feel.

lego 2009-04-14 09:48:35

If you're coming from *nix and you like Vim, then MacVim.

If you're coming from any other OS and/or you don't like Vim, then TextMate.

TextMate is not free, but it's well worth the €39. Trust me on this. It will pay for itself many, many times over.

Bob Aman 2009-04-14 15:51:22

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