Submitted by InfoWorld’s Martin Heller takes an in-depth look at nine Ruby on Rails IDEs and editors with Rails bundles, breaking down where each tool fits into a development strategy and how to mix and match tools for a complete set of functionality. Under review are Ruby in Steel, RadRails, Komodo, 3rdRail, NetBeans, TextMate, IntelliJ IDEA, E Text Editor, and Intype.
Nice to see a review like this. Ruby tools have really come a long way. I’m not surprised to see Netbeans coming out on top. The progress they have made recently is amazing.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/07/28TC-ruby-ides_5.html
Edited 2008-07-08 11:23 UTC
Yeah, things changed a lot since I started using Rails over a year ago. Especially I love what Sun did to Netbeans. It’s probably best IDE for Rails right now.
I’m waiting to see equal support for Python/Django there.
Anyway, I don’t feel being worse now when I watch Peepcode screencasts that use TextMate ;D.
Didn’t realize that jetbrains was getting in on the ruby game. IDEa is hands down my favorite IDE of all time, and even though I am a .net guy now, first thing I bought (after Studio) was R# from them.
Can hardly imagine doing serious work any more without alt-enter magic.
Edited 2008-07-08 11:56 UTC