An IDE For Ruby On Rails
I've previously griped about the lack of a good IDE for Ruby on Rails and despite trying out TextMate for a month I just wasn't happy enough with it – I'm still spending far too much time navigating files and not enough time coding. There's a lot of talk about just using VIM and being happy with that (example) but that VIM just doesn't have a good enough interface for selecting which file to edit and navigating the file system, let alone for quickly scanning files to find the section I want.
Fortunately, this evening I went out Googling for a better solution and found Ruby Development Tools – a set of Ruby plugins for Eclipse. It's perfect for me (and probably most other Java to Ruby converts) - an editing interface that I'm intimately familiar with, simple navigation of the file hierarchy and as a bonus, support for the Eclipse Outline view to jump to a specific method etc and Test::Unit support (not that I actually know how to use Test::Unit yet but this might prompt to actually do the right thing and start writing tests).
It's still very much beta software but is quite usable as is and hopefully more of the Eclipse feature set will make it in soon.
August 4th, 2005 at 11:46 pm
Another Ruby editor you might like to try out is the Ruby Editor Plugin for jEdit:
http://www.jedit.org/ruby/
It has code completion for the Ruby core types and an integrated RDoc viewer.
August 5th, 2005 at 7:51 am
Thanks Rob, that’s good to know. Sadly I’ve always hated jEdit’s interface with a passion so I’ll probably give it a miss. Others seem to like jEdit though so it would probably be a good option for them.
September 15th, 2005 at 12:26 am
FreeRIDE ?
December 4th, 2005 at 4:33 pm
Totally late to the game, but so far I’ve tried a ton of Ruby editors, and the best I’ve found (imho) is RadRails, which is based on eclipse. I also tried the JEdit plugin, RDT tools for eclipse, Komodo (which is good) and FreeRIDE (among a few others I’m probably forgetting).
RadRails is open source / freeware, and you can get it here: http://www.radrails.org (also, I have nothing to do with the RadRails project whatsoever).
March 3rd, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Among all available Rails IDE’s, my favorite is RadRails
May 16th, 2006 at 5:14 am
try Arachno Ruby IDE ,here :http://www.ruby-ide.com/ruby/ruby_ide_and_ruby_editor.php
Great IDE, commericial but effortable $29, and i’m not affiliating !
December 11th, 2006 at 2:55 am
I’ve been banging my head against the ruby/java editor brick wall for quite some time now, tried dozens, there is some argument for dipping your toe back into jEdit again. I accept that the Java user interface is a bit unnatractive, but there is a lot you can do to beautify it, eg:
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=screenshot&image=33
It only takes the download of a new icon set jar file to change everything.
You can download a console plugin and then compile and run from the F7 and F5 keys, it takes minutes to learn how to set up and I find myself liking it more and more, the more and more I run into things I don’t like about other editors.
March 9th, 2007 at 6:01 am
I have just released an IDE for Windows users. Still beta but usable
http://www.les-kaye.com/
September 25th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Hello..
I have worked on the basics of Ruby On Rails,
but I think the radrails in the best editor i have experienced till now.
But will have to still try for the codegear editor for Ruby on Rails.
Thanx.
BhaviK