What tools do you use for Ruby on Rails?

I’m curious to see what people are using for Ruby on Rails development. I know there are a lot of products coming out nowadays - 3rd Rail from Borland, IntelliJ IDEA (my preferred IDE before Eclipse when I used to Java/Swing) does Ruby now, NetBeans is positioning itself as a Ruby IDE, Aptana, Eclipse/RDT, etc. But I don’t have enough time to try them all out.

I personally use TextMate. It’s simple but powerful. I do a fair amount of work on the command line too, using rake tasks and then shortening up my most used rake tasks or ruby scripts with bash aliases.

Is there something out there I should try that would work better? I’d preferably like something still lightweight, makes it easy to run tests and navigate files, but supported code completion, refactoring, and some sort of double-clicking to find the declaration of a method.

So… what tools do you use for Ruby on Rails?

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Published:: 11.29.07 / 1am

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My name is Luis de la Rosa and I am an iPhone Consultant helping companies make iPhone apps.

I also develop my own Mac OS X and iPhone apps via my company Happy Apps. The first of these apps is WebnoteHappy, a bookmark manager for Mac OS X which lets you tag your bookmarks and synchronizes with del.icio.us.

I have been making iPhone applications for clients the past year through my company Happy Apps LLC. Through Happy Apps, I have also been developing Mac OS X apps and Ruby Rails apps for the past 3 1/2 years. For over 14 years, I’ve been developing commercial and in-house applications in Smalltalk, Java, Ruby and Objective-C.

I like to share what I’ve learned either from hands-on development or the latest books I’ve read. I used to do it in person when I worked in a cubicle but now I get to share it with everyone via my blog. I don’t really miss the cube. :)

You may have also found me chatting about nothing and everything with other Mac/iPhone programmers at Twitter or you may be within six degrees of separation of me at LinkedIn.

Alex Payne 11.29.07 / 3am

Tim Bray recently took a poll on more or less the same topic. Check out his results at: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/11/26/Ruby-Tool-Survey

Bruz 11.30.07 / 11am

I’ve just recently made the move from Aptana to NetBeans. The main motivators were Rspec support, with snazzy keyboard shortcuts to switch between a model/view/controller and it’s spec, and quickly run a single spec file. I wrote up a small guide for Rspec in NetBeans, oriented toward beginners: http://edgenic.com/2007/11/09/graphic-guide-to-rails-on-netbeans-rspec-and-autotest-from-scratch

Mike Zornek 12.3.07 / 9pm

How about, what are your favorite TextMate rails tools?

David Rivers 1.20.08 / 1pm

I’m all about Textmate and command-line. I’ve used Eclipse before (on a very slow PowerPC Mac) and ditched it since it seemed to be a bit of bloatware. However, I JUST got into Ruby–my experience is more with front-end development.

Anyway, nice site, man. I found it Googling “Beanetics Coffee Roasters”! I might make a trip up there today.

Are you in the Ruby Meetup group?

Luis de la Rosa

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