Text Editor for Ruby-on-Rails

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Text Editor for Ruby-on-Rails

guys which text editor is good for Rubyonrails?

i m using Windows and i was using E-Texteditor but its not free n its expired now can anyone plese tell me any free texteditor?

n which one is best an light among netbeans and aptana?

+2 A:

gVim if in Windows or Linux.

textmate if in OSX

Otherwise gVim

OscarRyz 2009-11-09 14:42:16

And make sure you installed the the rails.vim plug-in.Vim ruby debugger doesn't work properly on Windows, you should choose something else if you are familiar with ruby debugging.

Bogdan Gusiev 2009-11-09 14:54:22

+2 A:

Which is your operating system ?

On Mac, there's Textmate. For ruby or any other development, it's a dream to use.
On Linux and Windows, there's both Netbeans and Aptana.
I don't know for Netbeans. But Aptana has a quite good support of rails development with the Radrails plugin.

Damien MATHIEU 2009-11-09 14:43:26

aptana is too much heavy i have P3

Zeshansari 2009-11-09 14:51:19

TextMate is paid-for - the questioner doesn't want to pay EUR39

Mike Woodhouse 2009-11-09 15:30:17

Yeah. But apparently, he's also not on mac.

Damien MATHIEU 2009-11-09 15:50:00

+1 A:

Notepad++ hat also Ruby syntax highlighting

Andreas Hoffmann 2009-11-09 15:01:46

+1 A:

RubyMine gets a lot of press and runs on windows. It's free for open source and classroom use. I'd say it's probably better than Aptana or Netbeans, but I use TextMate fulltime and haven't revisited it in a while.

coreypurcell 2009-11-09 15:02:16

I have been using RubyMine since the first EAP. So far, it's the best Ruby IDE I have ever used. I also work with TextMate. I use both depending on what I have to do.

Simone Carletti 2009-11-10 08:14:10

I'd like to throw gedit in as well - It's what I use when I develop with Ubuntu. You can find a Windows version of gedit here.

Andy Gaskell 2009-11-09 16:15:47

I wrote a lot of Ruby code on a daily basis. The best editor, in my opinion ( and for Windows/Linux ) is Komodo Edit. Notepad++ doesn't have great autocompletion, RubyMine is too slow ( and not that great ) and Netbeans/Aptana are too heavy.

The only downside ( if you care ), is that it takes a bit more for the startup. After that, it runs great.

Geo 2009-11-09 16:18:59

Mac : textmate
Windows : e-texteditor, sublimetext
works everywhere (and linux) : rubymine, aptana, vi, emacs, netbeans

Mike 2009-11-09 17:15:58

+1 A:

NetBeans is heavy (full IDE compared with a text editor) as mentioned, but it's free and it works pretty well.

insane.dreamer 2009-11-09 17:44:15

cygwin and vim

DigitalRoss 2009-11-09 20:12:14

I've tried the various IDEs as well as e-texteditor, but they're all pretty painful to me. Emacs, on the other hand, is much lighter-weight and is available on all the various OSs mentioned (yes, the OP is on Windows, but other folks have been bringing up Mac and Linux).

My officemate (who was pretty die-hard about IDE use) just switched to VIM for Rails development on Linux because RubyMine (the best of the lot) was too buggy under X.

edebill 2009-11-09 20:32:02

use Vim(+macro)

thaold 2009-11-09 20:44:11

ansaurus

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