Tmux + tmuxinator + vim + Janus (bundle of really useful vim plugins
for ruby developers) - just started using this combo and it is great -
lets you easily build your own very powerful IDE.

Max

On 2/29/12, Paul <p...@nines.org> wrote:
> +1 for RubyMine. Everything is at your fingertips, and the debugging
> is great. I keep discovering new features that speed up development.
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:20 PM, soldier.coder
> <geekprogrammer...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 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
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