IDEs

[Thomas Nichols]

Someone asked on IRC about good IDEs for Rails work -- and apart from
the obvious (ViM and [X]Emacs) we came up with

* RadRails - built on Eclipse - http://www.radrails.org/ - open source
* IntelliJ IDEA Rails plugin -
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/ruby_development.html -
commercial but free for OSS development
* TextMate (but only for Mac)

Here's another I just found:

* NetBeans (!) Rails plugin -
http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/ruby_screenshot_of_the_week3 - the
code completion looks pretty smart.

This piqued my interest -- so here's a list of others I know next to
nothing about:
Arachno IDE - http://www.ruby-ide.com/ - Ruby, not sure about Rails $$$
jEdit -
http://toserveman.kalebwalton.com/articles/2006/07/30/jedit-as-textmate-equivalent-for-ruby-on-rails-development
RoRED - http://www.plasmacode.com/index.html - Windows only
RIDE-ME - http://www.projectrideme.com/ - "geared primarily toward
developers who are migrating from a Microsoft development platform"
Gyre - http://gyre.bitscribe.net/ - written in Ruby, web UI, IDE and
debugger
Komodo Edit -
http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2005/11/5/komodo-3-5-ide-with-support-for-ruby-on-rails
$$$
Mondrian - http://www.mondrian-ide.com/ - Ruby with FOX toolkit

Does anyone know anything about any of these? Gyre in particular looks
interesting.

And if you forswear an IDE for a Real Editor, there is
emacs-on-rails for Emacs -
http://www.bestechvideos.com/2007/01/08/emacs-on-rails-ide-demo/
rails.vim for ViM - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1567

What should we suggest on the wiki that people could try? Any
recommendations?

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And on a vaguely related note, has anyone done anything with Cerberus
for Continuous Integration?
http://www.degrunt.net/articles/2006/08/27/cerberus-continious-integration-for-rails/

Thomas.

[Greg Nokes]

I am a diehard textmate'r

I have installed RadRails several times, but never really gotten into
it.

I use gedit or nano when I am on a 'nix box.

[Shatil]

I wish there was TextMate for Windows. I end up using about four different applications because I like one thing about each... it's so annoying. TextMate seems to have it all.

 - slr

[Shatil]

Oh yeah, for Windows:

Komodo for coding Ruby (the dark theme is neato). It's neat - bloated, expensive as heck, but neat. Sort of.

RoRed for Rails dev (alas, no syntax completion by default, not really as smart as TextMate yet... colors could use tweaking). It doesn't support RJS.

For just viewing code, I sometimes use Notepad++ (it supports Ruby, but not RHTML or RJS). Radrails is okay, but I never really liked it much.

There's also the this TextMate act-alike for Windows called the E-editor: http://www.e-texteditor.com. I tried it a while back, but the pricing and relative immaturity was a turn off. Might be better now.

 - slr

[Al Chou]

e's extremely Windows-nonstandard Alt-key behavior (apparently a side effect of trying to accommodate Command-key equivalents in TextMate bundles; at least, that's my reading of the situation) is maddening if you're used to using Alt-key accelerators, but as e does not enforce its 30-day trial period, it is possible to give the editor a thorough workout over substantial periods of time.  There seems to be an updated beta at least once a week if not more often, too.

Al

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[Brett Walker]

I think I'm going to download it and give it a try.  Although I don't do much on Windows, every once in awhile I need to edit something. Might as well already have this installed.

[Prog Frog]

Whatever IDE/Editor you pick, if it not already multi-platform, then
it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a working knowledge of another one
that is. That way, when you happenn to work in "foreign territory",
you can still be productive.

For instance, I use TM for day to day work, but fallback to good old
VIM, when TM is not an option.

Croak!

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[Werner]

I have good experiences with RadRails. It's has auto completion, SVN
support, webbrick server and a good GUI.

Other than that I sometime used VIM for quick edits. VIM 7 has it's
own rails plug-in I think.

[Prog Frog]

Here are two recent articles on the subject

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/03/ides_for_ruby.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/03/looking_for_a_new_rails_ide_fo_1.html

Croak!

-- progfrog

[Al Chou]

And I discovered by downloading the latest (March 7) build of e that the Alt key behavior is fixed.

Al

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[dr_nailz]

RadRails is being taken over by Aptana ( http://aptana.com/ ) (which you can
also use as an Eclipse plugin). I'm not sure if their intentions are
announced yet, but I'll tip the RadRails features get rolled into Aptana.
They each have features the other doesn't, and of course some overlap. At
the moment you can just install both and use parts of each.
--
dr_nailz

[Werner Klausen]

Well, I hope it gets better. After writing my post, and d/l the latest
version of Radrails, I've now stopped using it. THere was just too
many hacks that needed to be done.

On Mar 13, 9:42 am, dr_nailz <dr.na...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 03 March 2007 01:09, Werner wrote:
>
> > I have good experiences with RadRails. It's has auto completion, SVN
> > support, webbrick server and a good GUI.
>
> > Other than that I sometime used VIM for quick edits. VIM 7 has it's
> > own rails plug-in I think.
>

> RadRails is being taken over by Aptana (http://aptana.com/) (which you can

[Prog Frog]

Werner, what do you use now, instead of Radrails?

-- progfrog