Saturday April 05, 2008
I was once all about gedit! It was very very lightweight, and with a few tweaks could be set up to be a very nice IDE, except for the fact its not an IDE, and the more I used it, the more I found limitations. So here I was asking about nice IDE's for ruby on rails on Ubuntu!
Luckily I found that the guys on #rubyonrails (on irc.freenode.org) have run into similar problems and they all recommend I tried out netbeans!
I was pretty sceptical after many attempts at eclipse and jedit, I've found that Java IDEs are about as fast as a runner at the special Olympics. But hell I'll give it a go! First I downloaded via apt-get, big mistake, the repository is way out of date, so I uninstalled and went to Netbeans Site where I see a nice "Ruby" version.
After downloading it, I'm really impressed with the coolness and speed! Its much much faster than eclipse and doesn't have those semi oval, semi ass about rounded tabs.. It has macros, snippets and all things nice! The only thing I'd like to see which is doesn't have is good variable completion!
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