What Ruby IDE do you prefer

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I ve been using Eclipse with RDT  not RadRails  a lot lately  and I m quite happy with it  but I m wondering if you guys know any decent alternatives  I know NetBeans also supports Ruby these days  but I m not sure what it has to offer over Eclipse   Please  list any features you think are brilliant or useful when suggesting an IDE  makes it easier to compare   Also  I said Ruby  not Rails  While Rails support is a plus  I prefer things to be none Rails-centric  It should also be available on Linux and optionally Solaris

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Have you tried Aptana  It s based on Eclipse and they have a sweet Rails plugin

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E Text Editor is great  TextMate compatible sort-of-clone for Windows

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emacs with ruby-mode  rdebug and a ruby interactive inferior shell

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I started out with RadRails then moved to Aptana when they took it over  wasn t too bad   Got a macbook and have been using Textmate  never going back

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While TextMate is not an IDE in the classical sense  try the following in terminal to be  wowed   cd  your-shiny-ruby-project  mate     It ll spawn up TextMate and the project drawer will list the contents of your project   Pretty awesome if you ask me

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On Mac OS X  TextMate is a godsend

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I prefer TextMate on OS X  But Netbeans  multi-platform  is coming along quite nicely  Plus it comes with its IDE fully functional debugger

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Most IDEs present the project structure in a top down manner  This is great way to explore at a high level when joining an existing project  However  after working on the same project for more than a year  I realized that this approach can become counter-productive    After Oracle declared the end of Ruby in NetBeans  I switched to Vim  By using a command line and an editor as the only tools  I was forced to mentally switch to a bottom-up perspective  To my amazement  I discovered that this made me more focused and productive  As a bonus  I got first class HAML and SASS syntax support   I recommend Vim   Rails plugin for anyone that will work on a single project for an extended period of time

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1 for TextMate on Mac OS X   See also answers to this question   I recommend trying NetBeans if you re on Windows

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Aptana more or less is RadRails  or it s based on it  I ve used it  and it s really good  but it does have some problems  For instance  it breaks the basic search dialog on my system  giving a raw java exception to the end user   and it clutters the interface with add like notices and upgrade bars and news feeds and     But all in all it s pretty good  especially its editors  ERB  HTML XML       are top notch

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Redcar has been getting some attention lately  as well  Still early in its life  but it shows promise

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I started out using gEdit  ubuntu user   but even with all the plugins and modifications  class file browser  terminal  darkmate scheme  etc  etc  it still always seemed to come up short  I ve also tried like hell to get Aptana RadRails and Studio to work  but none of them ever really seemed to sync up with my workflow  I ve even tried using Eclipse  but again  it just didn t work for me   RubyMine also seemed like it would be great  but I found it to be way too buggy  even after the upgrade to 3 0     So far  my favorite Ruby editor is Komodo Edit   It s got syntax highlighting and can detect errors and recognize your code based on user-specified ruby versions   Syntax highlighting schema are easily customizable and easy on the eyes   There are some very nice plugins for git  it can have split-screen editors  love that feature   and a great file-browser  I really wish Komodo had built-in terminal  multiple terminal  support  but everything else about it I ve really come to love  and haven t found anything better yet

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In last 3 months  I have tried RadRails  Netbeans and RubyMine and finally settled on RubyMine not so much for features but for responsiveness and stability reasons    In terms of features  RubyMine has slightly better code completion  debugging and code navigation  but only ruby beginners like myself  need them most  Relying on code completion and code navigation is anti-ruby rails  as ruby rails names are supposed to be natural and each line of code needs to be in its convention determined location

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Ruby in Steel  http   www sapphiresteel com Products Ruby-In-Steel Ruby-In-Steel-Developer-Overview  A Visual Studio based Ruby IDE   Fast Debugger  Intellisense

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RubyMine is so awesome  Everything just works  I could go on and on  Code completion is fast  smooth  and accurate  Formatting is instantaneous  Project navigation is easy and without struggle  You can pop open any file with a few keystrokes  You don t even need to keep the project tree open  but it s there if you want  You can configure just about any aspect of it to behave exactly how you want   NetBeans  Eclipse  and RubyMine all have more or less the same set of features  However  RubyMine is just so much more cleanly designed and easy to use  There s nothing awkward or clunky about it  There are all these nice little design touches that show how JetBrains really put thought into it instead of just amassing a big pile of features   Incidentally RubyMine can do a lot of the things that Vim can do like select and edit a column of text or split the view into several editing panels with different files in them

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NetBeans is good because you can use it on Windows and Mac OS X

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On Mac OS there is also XCode    http   developer apple com tools developonrailsleopard html

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The latest Netbeans IDE  6 1  has a pretty solid Ruby support    You can check it out here

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NetBeans has some really solid Ruby support

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I have used Komodo and it s pretty good  I use TextMate now

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Textmate on osx

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For very simple Linux support if you like TextMate  try just gedit loaded with the right plugins   Easy to set up and really customizable  I use it for just about everything   There s also a lot of talk about emacs plugins if you re already using that normally   Gedit  How to set up like TextMate

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RubyMine from JetBrains   Also available as a plugin to IntelliJ IDEA

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I d recommend NetBeans 6 1 too  Very nice IDE and makes working with Ruby a pleasure

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Once I found Geany  Ubuntu   I switched from TextMate  OSX  and never looked back   Geany is a lean  clean  speedy IDE that can be used either as a text editor or a light-weight IDE  It supports not only text editing features  syntax highlighting  code folding  auto-completion  auto-closing  symbol lists  code navigation  directory tree  multi-tabbed open files etc   but also normal IDE features such as simple project management  compile-build-run within the main window  Unlike TextMate  it has a Terminal screen within its own window  you do not have to go back and force between your editor window and terminal window  Unlike TextMate  it supports international languages  Unlike TextMate  it supports multi-platforms  Unlike TextMate  it is open-source and free  Geany is now my favorite C Ruby XML development tool

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