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)
