[Nakor]

what's some of those links for emacs, I've been wanting to look at into it for a little while

[WaeV]

I'm actually just starting with Ruby, but I really like NetBeans. Version 7 marked the drop of an official Ruby release, but the plugin is still being maintained. Plus I'm learning JRuby, so Java support out of the box is a plus.

I tried Aptana Studio, but NetBeans with the Ruby and Rails plugin takes the cake.

[Martyr2]

I figured I would rate you down since you rated me down on an apparent whim. After all, I recommended both Aptana and Netbeans (which you even say is what you prefer).

Next time you want to rate someone down, make sure they are actually giving bogus advice and that your own doesn't actually agree with theirs.

[WaeV]

My downvote was not because I disagreed with your IDE recommendation (that would be totally silly - you offered a few good choices and said "Up to whatever is comfortable for you really."), but rather because my impression was that you dismissed the need for an IDE due to Ruby being a scripting language.

The way I understand it, Ruby *can* be used for scripting, but it can also be put to many other purposes. It can be used with Rails to write web applications, JRuby can be used with Java to write .jar applications, and Ruby also has some of the best testing frameworks I've heard of - a feature whose power I find is most easily harnessed by an IDE. (There are obviously many other ways to apply Ruby which I have not listed here.) To me your answer felt like it said "Because Ruby is a scripting language, you should be looking for scripting tools rather than an IDE."

Rereading your post, I can see that it was worded in a helpful manner and does not claim that any one approach is superior to another. At the time I downvoted it, however, I felt that your post was unhelpful.

I'm sorry you felt the need to give me a retaliatory downvote.

[Sadin56]

Sergio Tapia, on 15 February 2011 - 03:14 PM, said:

I'm reading through the Pickaxe book introduction area and I'm wondering what IDE you guys would recommend I use when programming in Ruby.

I'm coming a Visual Studio 2010 background so something like Vim is a no-no.

I use Aptana Studio 3 from http://aptana.com because it now has Rad Rails built in.