Yet Another Ruby on Rails IDE: RideMe

Daniel Butler — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:23:00 -0400

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)

Project RideMe
Download Installer: RideMe.Setup.msi

Ruby IDE Support in Visual Studio

Daniel Butler — Sat, 20 May 2006 18:10:00 -0400

Huw Collingbourne has announced the first public beta of a Ruby IDE called ‘Steel’ for Visual Studio. He writes, “Beta 0.5 has colour coding, code collapsing and various editing features (bracket matching, commenting, syntax error location etc.) plus a docked interactive console.”

Example of Automatic Code Outlining

Later releases will include debugging, dedicated Rails suppport (color-coding and project management). They are currently accepting feedback, comments, and feature requests.

Sapphire Steel Ruby IDE
Screencast of Ruby Debugging in Steel

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