Yet Another Ruby on Rails IDE: RideMe
Posted by Daniel Butler Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:23:00 GMT
While nothing can really compare to TextMate on OS X for its simplicity and natural flexibility, Windows users have yet another Ruby on Rails IDE to satiate your need of file drawers, tab completions, and that debilitating syntax-highlighting addiction: RideMe. Jeff Cohen declared version 1.0 as indulging you in the following ways:
- 100% free, open source, and not built on top of anything else. You just need Ruby 1.8.2 and .NET 2.0 installed.
- Mission in life is to be lightweight and very fast. This is not a general purpose Ruby editor, it’s an IDE for getting your Rails work done.
- File-system based approach. No messy workspace files or extra RIDE-ME specifics junking up your directory.
- Syntax highlighting for Ruby Files, Views, Layouts, JavaScript, SQL, CSS, and HTML.
- Familiar Visual Studio-style tabbed document editor.
- Model / Member drop downs for easy movability in code. (Think Visual Studio above your code file)
- Code folding for Ruby files
- script/console built into the IDE (think Visual Studio “Immediate Mode”)
- Server Error notification (template errors will actually open the view file and go to the LOC)
- Internal web browser (optional)
Thanks for the linkage!
Just so you know, this IDE doesn’t work. Download it and try to see if it will find your Ruby directory on your machine. What’s worse is you won’t receive any information about how to fix this issue and there is nothing online to help you. I’m going to buy a Mac and use textmate