Up till now I've been using Scite on Windows and Smultron on OS X for Ruby development. I've also been using Netbeans for about 12 months for Java, but it looks like it may be time for a change as Netbeans is now adding some pretty decent Ruby support.
Here's a short video showing some of the things that got me interested:
http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/jruby_editing/jruby_editing.html
Only downside so far is that Netbeans is no lightweight. Scite, though lacking a few things, has a brilliant startup time and as such is very practical for quick scripts etc. Netbeans takes nearly a minute to load on my work machine (old and under-specced) which is fine for a project I'll spend the next few hours on, but not much fun for a quick job.
How are other people finding Netbeans as a Ruby IDE?
Cheers,
Dave
Spring for TextMate, it's not free but it really is worth it.
Starts fast as can be.
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On Mar 14, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Sharon Phillips wrote:
Up till now I've been using Scite on Windows and Smultron on OS X for Ruby development. I've also been using Netbeans for about 12 months for Java, but it looks like it may be time for a change as Netbeans is now adding some pretty decent Ruby support.
Here's a short video showing some of the things that got me interested:
http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/jruby_editing/jruby_editing.html
Only downside so far is that Netbeans is no lightweight. Scite, though lacking a few things, has a brilliant startup time and as such is very practical for quick scripts etc. Netbeans takes nearly a minute to load on my work machine (old and under-specced) which is fine for a project I'll spend the next few hours on, but not much fun for a quick job.
How are other people finding Netbeans as a Ruby IDE?
Cheers,
Dave
I agree, TextMate is worth the money. I am also finding the Ruby and
Rails support in IntelliJ to be very useful. I tend to use TextMate
for small Ruby projects and for a "background code browser" when
working with Common Lisp+Emacs on large systems. I like IntelliJ
better for Rails work.
I tried NetBeans+Ruby and it was not the joyful experience that
TextMate or IntelliJ provided, but I expect NetBean's Ruby support to
get better fast.
-Mark Watson, author and consultant
-www.markwatson.com for free web books
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On Mar 13, 9:42 pm, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com> wrote:
Spring for TextMate, it's not free but it really is worth it.
Starts fast as can be.
On Mar 14, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Sharon Phillips wrote:
> Up till now I've been using Scite on Windows and Smultron on OS X
> for Ruby development. I've also been using Netbeans for about 12
> months for Java, but it looks like it may be time for a change as
> Netbeans is now adding some pretty decent Ruby support.
> Here's a short video showing some of the things that got me
> interested:
>http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/jruby_editing/
> jruby_editing.html
> Only downside so far is that Netbeans is no lightweight. Scite,
> though lacking a few things, has a brilliant startup time and as
> such is very practical for quick scripts etc. Netbeans takes nearly
> a minute to load on my work machine (old and under-specced) which
> is fine for a project I'll spend the next few hours on, but not
> much fun for a quick job.
> How are other people finding Netbeans as a Ruby IDE?
> Cheers,
> Dave