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TextMate because of... Has Autocomplete, Simple

What's the best Rails IDE?


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From Wikipedia: TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor for Mac OS X created by Allan Odgaard... Notable features include declarative customizations, tabs for open documents, recordable macros, folding sections and snippets, shell integration, and an extensible bundle system.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextMate

TextMate Homepage: http://macromates.com/

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JetBrains RubyMine is a commercial IDE for Ruby and Ruby on Rails built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform.
RubyMine provides intelligent code completion for Ruby and Rails code, on-the-fly code analysis and refactoring support for both plain Ruby projects and web applications built with Ruby on Rails. For web development, HTML/CSS and JavaScript editing is supported with integrated Web page preview.

http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/index.html

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Seems to be a full fledged, popular IDE
I've seen this one come up several times in forums: http://www.netbeans.org/features/ruby/index.html

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http://aptana.com/radrails

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  • richesh
     
    richesh member since Sep 21, 2008
    help for this decision...
    Best Option Pick: NetBeans
    Options Suggested: JetBrains RubyMine, RadRails
    Reasons Suggested: 17  (avg points: 1.2/5.0)
    Ratings: 3
    score: 60.8
  • blake
     
    blake member since Sep 21, 2008
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    Options Suggested: TextMate, NetBeans Komodo
    Criteria Suggested: Code Navigation, Cheap, Simple, Keyboard Shortcuts, Has Autocomplete
    Reasons Suggested: 2  (avg points: 3.3/5.0)
    score: 33.2
  • barkerja
     
    barkerja member since Sep 04, 2009
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    Best Option Pick: TextMate
    Reasons Suggested: 1  (avg points: 5.0/5.0)
    Ratings: 4
    score: 24.5
  • good002
     
    good002 member since Dec 31, 2009
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    Discussion Comments: 1
    score: 3.0
  • brentsor..
     
    brentsordyl member since Apr 02, 2009
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    Options Suggested: RoRED, Vi, Vim, Emacs
    Discussion Comments: 4
    score: 0.0

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