Hello,
Is there a good IDE for Ruby?
At the moment am using "vi", plan to migrate to TextEditor under GNOME
I tried downloading ruby-ide from http://www.ruby-ide.com/
But it kept making me go round and round to get a trial version.
Best Regards,
~Mayuresh
please try NetBeans.
Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
Hello,
Is there a good IDE for Ruby?
At the moment am using "vi", plan to migrate to TextEditor under GNOMEI tried downloading ruby-ide from http://www.ruby-ide.com/
But it kept making me go round and round to get a trial version.Best Regards,
~Mayuresh
Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
Hello,
Is there a good IDE for Ruby?
At the moment am using "vi", plan to migrate to TextEditor under GNOME
Yikes! 
Stick with vi (or vim, really) and avail yourself of copious macros and scripting goodness.
And get rtags, too. Helps makes code navigation in vim super bad.
--
James Britt
www.happycamperstudios.com - Wicked Cool Coding
www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys
www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation
www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff
It depends on your platform and your budget. KDevelop is free and open
source, but really runs well only on Linux with the KDE desktop. Komodo,
which is the one I use, is propietary but runs well on almost all
platforms. There are others, like Eclipse and NetBeans, but I haven't
used them.
The key factor in choosing an IDE is the nature of the project. If it's
a single-person project, use whatever works best for you. But if it's a
multi-person project, even if only two, pick something that facilitates
communication among the team and with all of the other tools, especially
your source control, defect tracking, compilers, debuggers, etc.
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:00 +0900, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
Hello,
Is there a good IDE for Ruby?
At the moment am using "vi", plan to migrate to TextEditor under GNOMEI tried downloading ruby-ide from http://www.ruby-ide.com/
But it kept making me go round and round to get a trial version.Best Regards,
~Mayuresh
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com
"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." --
Alfréd Rényi via Paul Erdős
I like working in NetBeans, but even on the Quad processor computer at
work, NetBeans can be sloooow, when it shouldn't be. My one complaint
about NetBeans is that it eats memory for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Dejan's experiences sound very similar to mine, except that I have
never tried VIM. I think I will give VIM a whirl. Thanks Dejan
~Jay
Two words: GNU Emacs[1]
[1] http://gnu.org/software/emacs
On Fri Aug 8 14:00:54 2008, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
Hello,
Is there a good IDE for Ruby?
At the moment am using "vi", plan to migrate to TextEditor under GNOMEI tried downloading ruby-ide from http://www.ruby-ide.com/
But it kept making me go round and round to get a trial version.Best Regards,
~Mayuresh
--
Fred O. Phillips
BBC7 7572 755F 83E0 3209 504A E4F7 874F 1545 9D41
The newest NetBeans is great. I use it for Ruby, Groovy, and Java and it
excels at all of them. I'm forced to use Eclipse at work and I would
stay away from it or any of it's variants.
I prefer to do most of my coding in a text editor. I use TextMate
because I'm fortunate enough to have a mac. On linux I use gedit. It's
better than any other graphical editor I've used besides TextMate. Make
sure you look into gedit's plugins feature. I use several plugins;
snippets, regex search and replace, external tools, file browser pane,
indent lines, line tools, split view, and word completion.
vi is a much more powerful editor but it has a steep learning curve.
emacs is also very powerful, with a different type of steep learning
curve.
I would say that vi one of the most important things you can learn on
unix, however I've been too lazy to do so myself so far and gedit has
served me well. I have intent to learn vi soon.
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
The good Ruby IDE is more about what do you need in particular moment.
I have spend long time testing and finding the right one for me. Here
is a first moment expressions about that process.
I spend my developing times on XP and Ubuntu. The Text Mate is
something that I would like to have but I have try some other
surrogates. My goal is to have almost the same development environment
on both systems.
I have start with SciTE and it is sufficient for the some ruby
programs of mine. Some time I still use it for a 100 line scripts on
XP.
Next Eclipse come along and it was good for a while on both OS. Latter
Aptana take over and after some updates I somehow fill the need to
switch to something new.
NetBeans 6 come with a fresh ruby and rails support and I jump right
in. I have some glitches and eats memory but it was fresh and
interesting. I still use it from time to time.
On XP I have try E-Text editor the windows clone of Text Mate. Very
good and productive but only on windows.
Now I am back to, my not mentioned love so far, VIM. Somehow it is
present on all systems and getting around with it can be a life saver.
It takes time to accommodate but it worth it and it is sufficiently
productive. The better you know it the greater Kung-Fu kata you can
perform. Sooner then latter you will find your self in production VPS
SSH terminal trying to fix something and VIM is there as your survival
swiss knife.
If this could have some point it can be:
you should try to find the IDE that suits you needs and to invest time
to try the others as well but always be prepare to use just a plain
text editor and command prompt.
On Aug 8, 7:22 am, James Britt <james.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> Hello,> Is there a good IDE for Ruby?
> At the moment am using "vi", plan to migrate to TextEditor under GNOMEYikes!
Stick with vi (or vim, really) and avail yourself of copious macros and
scripting goodness.And get rtags, too. Helps makes code navigation in vim super bad.
--
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Liang.Ye wrote:
please try NetBeans.
I second NetBeans.
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.
Jayson Williams wrote:
I think I will give VIM a whirl.
If you're gonna go with Vim, I highly recommend you buy O'Reilly's book on learning Vi/Vim. Vi isn't like any other text editors that you have used before.
That being said, I encourage you to learn Vi, for in my opinion it is one of the most valuable skills a programmer can have.
-Dana
--
Dana Merrick - System Administrator
Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.
54B Middlesex Tpke, Bedford, MA 01730
617.621.0060 x112 - http://www.ics.com
Mayuresh,
As someone who absolutely loves coding in NetBeans and all the
niceties of it, keep your vim handy, as well as scite.
NetBeans
Like I said, I love using NetBeans but:
* It's a pain when you just need to edit one or two files.
* It's a pain for small projects & one off scripts.
* It's rather slow to load up.
Scite
When NetBeans is to slow to load, or I'm doing a one off, or a just a
quick edit, I say Scite.
It's got good text highlighting
It's got code folding
It has other features, but I don't care about them.
Still, it's X only, and you don't always have X, so..
VIM!
All that said, I still use vim extensively for coding in ruby, sh, etc.
It's on everything
It loads fast
Easy to search through large scripts
Good text highlighting
Just a few thoughts
--Kyle
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:22 AM, James Britt <james.britt@gmail.com> wrote:
Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
Is there a good IDE for Ruby?
Yikes!
Stick with vi (or vim, really) and avail yourself of copious macros and
Jayson Williams wrote:
I like working in NetBeans, but even on the Quad processor computer at
work, NetBeans can be sloooow, when it shouldn't be. My one complaint
about NetBeans is that it eats memory for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Dejan's experiences sound very similar to mine, except that I have
never tried VIM. I think I will give VIM a whirl. Thanks Dejan~Jay
Like other people are saying, Netbeans has been quite good for me. I
have a 4-gig laptop
I started using it in place of vim because it was easier to jump between
files in a rails application (there are keys to jump from models to
tests, controllers to views or tests etc).
I love the vim/vi way of dealing with text. You've got climb a small
hill to understand how to use it when you're starting out, once you do,
it's hard to go back. A lot of people will never make that climb
though.
Some other things regarding netbeans
* the jvi extension - do everything netbeans offers AND edit text like
vi/vim - that's what sold me about netbeans
(http://jvi.sourceforge.net/\)
* in-built rails / ruby project handling
* mercurial - netbeans handles mercurial quite well; not sure about git
- that's gotta be there though
* code changes are displayed (green - new, blue - changed, red - delete
on the files you are editing and changed files are highlighted; just a
nice touch
* it takes a year for it start up on my ubuntu laptop - no idea why.
Daniel
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.
Have you tried the eclipse plugins for Ruby? To my mind eclipse provides the
most comprehensive IDE you could wish for with the appropriate plugins. There
are also good plugins for rails, svn etc etc and all the other tools you
might wish to use
David
On Saturday 09 August 2008 09:53:12 Fred Phillips wrote:
On Fri Aug 8 14:00:54 2008, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a good IDE for Ruby?
> At the moment am using "vi", plan to migrate to TextEditor under GNOME
>
> I tried downloading ruby-ide from http://www.ruby-ide.com/
> But it kept making me go round and round to get a trial version.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> ~MayureshTwo words: GNU Emacs[1]
Is there a good IDE for Ruby?
At the moment am using "vi", plan to migrate to TextEditor under GNOMEYikes!
Assuming that by TextEditor you mean Gedit, I'd have to say Yikes.not 
Gedit is actually a really nice lightweight code editor.
It can do a lot more than people think. I did a writeup on it
on using it with ruby here:
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/\.
To piggy-back on and emphasize the importance of Dana's point,
If you are or intend to become a programmer you should commit to
learning either VI or Emacs.
They are both ubiquitous, can be used on any language or file type and
have the same core of essential features...
- Indenting, reformatting.
- Syntax highlighting.
- Auto-completion
- Frames
- Regions
- Unlimited undo and redo.
- Multiple cut and paste clipboards.
- Spell checking.
- Multiple language support (including Unicode, R-to-L for Hebrew, Arabic, etc.)
- Extensible
- Macros and functions.
- Fully customizable keys vs. actions.
- Handle text strings, full lines, rectangles.
- Adapt to type of file (.txt, .c, .html, etc.) being edited.
- No line length or file size limits, within reason.
- Automatically handle UNIX, MAC, DOS line endings (LF, CR, CRLF respectively).
- Binary file editing.
- Well documented, both internally and via available books and ebooks.
- Large user/support community
that allow your text editing to expand to true sensi black-belt
olympic telepathic grand-master 9-Dan ninja-type powers. ultimately
the effort spent learning the tool will be more than re-payed in your
increased efficiency.
Sorry if this turned a little proselytising.
Thanks -- Eric
I took the feature list mainly from
http://www.prismnet.com/~dierdorf/emacsvi.html which incidentaly is
the first google hit for "vim emacs"
On Saturday, August 9, at 01:01, Dana Merrick wrote:
> Jayson Williams wrote:
> > I think I will give VIM a whirl.
>
> If you're gonna go with Vim, I highly recommend you buy O'Reilly's book on
> learning Vi/Vim. Vi isn't like any other text editors that you have used before.
>
> That being said, I encourage you to learn Vi, for in my opinion it is one of the
> most valuable skills a programmer can have.
>
> -Dana
>
>
> --
> Dana Merrick - System Administrator
> Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.
> 54B Middlesex Tpke, Bedford, MA 01730
> 617.621.0060 x112 - http://www.ics.com
>
--
schulte
Thanks Dana,
I've played with Vi while getting my feet wet with Linux, some time
ago. I agree Vi is not like anything you would traditionally find on
Windows systems. I just installed gvim, and when I opened it up, for
the first time, I let out a slight gasp. I had forgotten how 'textual'
Vi is (even in gvim). No pretty windowed help screen, no pop up
alerts, just text. The up side is that Vi brings out a touch Spartan
in me, which is nice from time to time.
Thanks for the heads up Dana
~Jay
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Dana Merrick <dmerrick@ics.com> wrote:
If you're gonna go with Vim, I highly recommend you buy O'Reilly's book on
learning Vi/Vim. Vi isn't like any other text editors that you have used
before.That being said, I encourage you to learn Vi, for in my opinion it is one of
the most valuable skills a programmer can have.
Scite
When NetBeans is to slow to load, or I'm doing a one off, or a just a
quick edit, I say Scite.
It's got good text highlighting
It's got code folding
It has other features, but I don't care about them.
Still, it's X only, and you don't always have X, so..
Scite used to run on Windows -- did that change?
VIM!
All that said, I still use vim extensively for coding in ruby, sh, etc.
It's on everything
It loads fast
Easy to search through large scripts
Good text highlighting
It runs on Windows.
There's a book called "Hacking Vim".
It has a nice Ruby scripting interface.
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 03:06 +0900, Kyle Schmitt wrote:
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com
"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." --
Alfréd Rényi via Paul Erdős
Unless you're really a rank beginner, I'd pass up "Learning Vi/Vim" and
pick up "Hacking Vim".
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 01:01 +0900, Dana Merrick wrote:
Jayson Williams wrote:
> I think I will give VIM a whirl.If you're gonna go with Vim, I highly recommend you buy O'Reilly's book on
learning Vi/Vim. Vi isn't like any other text editors that you have used before.
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com
"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." --
Alfréd Rényi via Paul Erdős
Kyle Schmitt wrote:
NetBeans
Like I said, I love using NetBeans but:
* It's a pain when you just need to edit one or two files.
* It's a pain for small projects & one off scripts.
* It's rather slow to load up.
I haven't tried it yet but I've heard from others 6.5 is tighter and faster in a lot of areas, so it's probably worth giving a try (still in dev mode at the moment, but I know several people running the dev builds).
- Charlie
Christophe Mckeon wrote:
Is there a good IDE for Ruby?
At the moment am using "vi", plan to migrate to TextEditor under GNOMEYikes!
Assuming that by TextEditor you mean Gedit, I'd have to say Yikes.not
Or perhaps: "!Yikes"
:-P.
-Dana
--
Dana Merrick - System Administrator
Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc.
54B Middlesex Tpke, Bedford, MA 01730
617.621.0060 x112 - http://www.ics.com