First: Free your mind from the shackle that comes from false belief that IDE's are necessary for superior productivity. IDE's are great for compiledh languages like C or C++ as they can spot syntax errors that will cause your program to not compile. Instead, embrace Behavior Driven Development, write tests for code you haven't written yet, tests for code you have written, consider how to refactor the code that results. Move faster by going slower! Learn to wield your editor like a samurai's sword -- an extension of yourself.
>From Agile Web Development with Rails: "It may surprise you to know that most Rails [and Ruby] developers don't use fully fledged IDE's for Ruby or Rails (although some of the environments come close). Indeed many Rails developers use plain old editors. And it turns out that this isn't as much of a problem as you might think. With other less expressive languages, programmers rely on IDEs to do much of the grunt work for them, because IDE's do code generation, assist with navigation, and compile incrementally to give early warning of errors. With Ruby, however, much of this support just isn't necessary. Editors such as Textmate and BBEdit [or E for Windows, or VIM for Linux] give you 90 percent of what you'd get from and IDE but are far lighter weight. Just about the only useful IDE facility that's missing is refactoring support." SC On Feb 28, 9:46 am, nada <nn.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a novice in Ruby , I want to ask what is the best IDEs to use Ruby > for beginners ? > > Is eclipse a good choice ? > > any idea? > > Thanks a lot! > Nada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
