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ibn tachfine

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May 11, 2007, 6:56:29 AM5/11/07
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Hi

i m new in Ruby on Rails, i want to use an editor to practise it, so
what editor should i use ?

Regards

Dave Goodchild

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May 11, 2007, 7:00:52 AM5/11/07
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Depends what platform you're on. RadRails is excellent for Windows. Mac users tend to swear by TextMate. Check out Arachno for Ruby also. But it's very personal!
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ibn tachfine

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May 11, 2007, 7:12:37 AM5/11/07
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For linux ?


On 11 mai, 11:00, "Dave Goodchild" <buddhamag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Depends what platform you're on. RadRails is excellent for Windows. Mac
> users tend to swear by TextMate. Check out Arachno for Ruby also. But it's
> very personal!
>

Russell Norris

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May 11, 2007, 7:34:43 AM5/11/07
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I've been using Eclipse with RadRails plugin[s] and, other and Java's well-known memory usage, I like it a lot. I suppose I could bite the bullet and choose something leaner but I've grown accustomed its syntax checking.

RSL

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Juan José Vidal

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May 11, 2007, 7:33:08 AM5/11/07
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For Linux: RadRails, of course :P

Arjun

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May 11, 2007, 9:40:01 AM5/11/07
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This should be of some help.

http://www.devx.com/RubySpecialReport/Article/34454/0/page/2


--Arjun.


On May 11, 4:33 pm, Juan José Vidal <juanj...@um.es> wrote:
> For Linux: RadRails, of course :P
>

> El vie, 11-05-2007 a las 11:12 +0000, ibn tachfine escribi?:

Pierre-Alexandre Meyer

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May 11, 2007, 12:24:50 PM5/11/07
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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:12:37AM -0000, ibn tachfine wrote :
> For linux ?

I've tried several nightly builds of netbeans6 with JVM 1.6 but they are
not stable at all.

Tim Pope's Vim plugin really rocks.

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Mike

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May 11, 2007, 12:29:41 PM5/11/07
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Aptana works perfectly, it´s very good

Nathan Fiedler

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May 11, 2007, 12:36:36 PM5/11/07
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True, the NB dailies are a wee bit unstable at times. However, it is
months away from release, so that is to be expected. It is alpha quality
at this time, but still surprisingly useful. I use it every day. There's
also a build just for Ruby, which tends to be a little better than the
full IDE: http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/Ruby

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Pierre-Alexandre Meyer

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May 11, 2007, 12:47:05 PM5/11/07
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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:36:36AM -0700, Nathan Fiedler wrote :
> True, the NB dailies are a wee bit unstable at times. However, it is
> months away from release, so that is to be expected. It is alpha quality
> at this time, but still surprisingly useful. I use it every day.

Sure. Developers do a great job!

Yuri Leikind

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May 11, 2007, 1:06:46 PM5/11/07
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Hi there,

An editor/IDE is a matter of choice and a cause of holy wars :)

My personal requirements for my main professional tool is
1) It's the same on windows and Linux. I do my own stuff in Linux, but
at work I have to use XP. This way I don't have to switch when
changing OSes
2) It's the same for all development platforms, so I don't have to
change it when I do Ruby coding, Java coding or anything else


My choice is jEdit which is a modern programmable editor with a wealth
of plugins for different languages and tasks. RubyPlugin +
ProjectViewer + more

I use the same keyboard shortcuts all the time, learn the tool,
program my macros, get more efficient...

Cheers,
Yury

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May 11, 2007, 1:14:00 PM5/11/07
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On May 11, 9:24 am, Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <p...@mouraf.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:12:37AM -0000, ibn tachfine wrote :
>
> > For linux ?
>
> I've tried several nightly builds of netbeans6 with JVM 1.6 but they are
> not stable at all.
>

1) I have had fabulous success with Netbeans 6.0. Yes, its still in
development, but I have been using it nearly daily without a hint of
trouble. YMMV. Here is a link to a blog of one of the primary
developers of Ruby for Netbeans, Tor Norbye. Tor is cool, and the
blog is very informative as it outlines his weekly development of Ruby
for Netbeans:

http://blogs.sun.com/tor/

And here is a link to the nightly build of Netbeans 6.0. Be sure to
use the Update Center to auto-install all the Ruby stuff:
http://www.netbeans.info/downloads/dev.php

And, they are also considering a Ruby-only version of Netbeans
(meaning, with all the Java stuff extracted out). Try here for that
Hudson (I think this is the code name for the project) install. In my
experience with it, it is also as stable as the "full Netbeans":
http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/ruby/


2) Before Netbeans I was using Konquerer for my "file/project
browser" and the Kate editor (that comes with a KDE install). I have
to say that I was quite satisfied with that. But it won't give you
syntax checking and the like (though the syntax coloring is nice).
Still, I was quite content with it for some time.


My advice would be to try Netbeans. I use it for my daily RoR work.
It is great now, and will only get better (add more features) as they
approach the official Netbeans 6.0 launch.

Rob

Maciej Piechotka

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May 11, 2007, 1:51:50 PM5/11/07
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On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:00:52 +0100, Dave Goodchild wrote:

> Depends what platform you're on. RadRails is excellent for Windows. Mac
> users tend to swear by TextMate. Check out Arachno for Ruby also. But
> it's very personal!

I've used RadRail (0.8 included) s for some time but I think Netbeans
(6.0 M9) have better ruby/rails support.

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Tud

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May 11, 2007, 2:27:17 PM5/11/07
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Pierre-Alexandre Meyer

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josh...@gmail.com

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May 11, 2007, 5:01:05 PM5/11/07
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I got one? I handcode HTML/CSS... But I still use dreamweaver to
quickly view things. I am using dreamweaver 8. Is there a way to
configure dreamweaver to interpret rhtml as html?

On May 11, 11:44 am, Pierre-Alexandre Meyer <p...@mouraf.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:27:17PM +0200, Tud wrote :
>
> > Vimhttp://www.vim.org+
> > VibrantInk Themehttp://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1794+
> > Vim-Rubyhttp://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/VimRubySupport+
> > Rails.Vimhttp://rails.vim.tpope.net+
> > SuperTabhttp://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1643+
> > SnippetsEmuhttp://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1318+

> > VimMatehttp://vimmate.rubyforge.org

keith

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May 11, 2007, 10:23:55 PM5/11/07
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My dev team breaks down like this:

- RadRails/Windows Vista: 1
- VIM/Ubuntu: 3
- Textmate/MAC: 1

I'm the Windows user and I really like RadRails.

longint

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May 11, 2007, 10:33:45 PM5/11/07
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I will have to say Aptana (w/RadRails) is my current fav right now.
You really can't beat the svn integration that allows for easy
rollbacks and visual comparisons.

Milet Baker

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May 12, 2007, 2:47:02 PM5/12/07
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Guys,

I'm using Netbeans 6 and it is great, lots of nice features and code
completion, used on both Mac and Windows. Runs database migrations as
well as script/generate and also debugging with breakpoints (I am
told) but have not tried it. One thing though is I have only found
success with Netbeans 6 Milestone 9 which can be tricky to find on
their site. Apparently works with Milestone 8 but I had difficulties
with this release. You need to download the full version of M9 and
then only select Ruby and deselect all the Java and the Java
enterprise servers stuff. (unless you're a Java developer, obviously!)

Take care,

Jon

Sat

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May 12, 2007, 9:52:38 PM5/12/07
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I am a newbie and had to figure out what would work for me too. I use
a windows laptop and though I used an IDE previously, I find that it
is overkill for RoR. I am using an editor called "E", it is a textmate
clone on windows. The bundles feature is a time saver and if you need
to refactor a variable name or something like that, it has some cool
editing features that help. If you need an IDE, RadRails is the best
one out there. Having said that, netbeans looks like its going to be
great, too buggy for me right now.

Thanks
Satish

IsBOF

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May 13, 2007, 2:58:50 PM5/13/07
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1+ for jedit, simple, nice plugin system, works on win, linux.

/IsBOF

BraveDave

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May 15, 2007, 8:41:51 AM5/15/07
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Juan,
I use RadRails on my Windows XP development machine and like it very
much. I've tried to run it on my Linux Ubuntu 6.10 machine and have
extracted the tar.gz but don't know how to start the program.
I expect you laugh at me but would sure appreciate a pointer in this
direction.
David
775-885-9125

On May 11, 6:33 am, Juan José Vidal <juanj...@um.es> wrote:
> For Linux: RadRails, of course :P
>

> El vie, 11-05-2007 a las 11:12 +0000, ibn tachfine escribi󺠼br>


>
>
>
> > For linux ?
>
> > On 11 mai, 11:00, "Dave Goodchild" <buddhamag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Depends what platform you're on. RadRails is excellent for Windows. Mac
> > > users tend to swear by TextMate. Check out Arachno for Ruby also. But it's
> > > very personal!
>
> > > On 5/11/07, ibn tachfine <sadik.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi
>
> > > > i m new in Ruby on Rails, i want to use an editor to practise it, so
> > > > what editor should i use ?
>
> > > > Regards
>

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Cody Skidmore

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May 15, 2007, 9:04:16 AM5/15/07
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You might take a look at RBuilder.

http://www.codegear.com/article/36433

The article says it is available for beta testing. It is Eclipse-based
and should be a great editor.

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Mohit Sindhwani

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May 15, 2007, 12:04:30 PM5/15/07
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Cody Skidmore wrote:
> ibn tachfine wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> i m new in Ruby on Rails, i want to use an editor to practise it, so
>> what editor should i use ?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>
> You might take a look at RBuilder.
>
> http://www.codegear.com/article/36433
>
> The article says it is available for beta testing. It is Eclipse-based
> and should be a great editor.
>
>

I usually like Codegear products :) but I'm a bit skeptical about
Eclipse :-S though I guess it makes sense for platform neutrality. I
wonder what it will cost, though!

Cheers
Mohit.


Glimjaur

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May 15, 2007, 12:22:45 PM5/15/07
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I for one, use Radrails, i think it's the best one i have tried yet.

Bilek

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May 15, 2007, 3:20:24 PM5/15/07
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I'd add Monaco font to this list. http://www.gringod.com/wp-upload/MONACO.TTF

On May 11, 8:27 pm, Tud <tudra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ibn tachfine ha detto: in data 11/05/2007 13:12:> For linux ?
>

> .Stefano

Sharon Machlis

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May 15, 2007, 3:46:53 PM5/15/07
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I'm new also and haven't done any serious development work in Ruby on
Rails (yet). But I do like Active State's free Komodo Edit:

http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_edit/

It runs on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.

I'm sure I'd like the Komodo IDE even more, but since I don't code for
a living, it's hard to justify paying $295 for it.

Sharon

Greg Donald

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May 15, 2007, 4:59:26 PM5/15/07
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On 5/15/07, Sharon Machlis <smac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure I'd like the Komodo IDE even more, but since I don't code for
> a living, it's hard to justify paying $295 for it.

I find it impossible to justify Komodo's cost and I do code for a
living. There are way too many free alternatives to be paying more
than a few bucks for a text editor. And even then it's still not a
need, but more of a want.


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