Appendix D. Ruby and Rails Development Software

To program Ruby, you will need a Ruby interpreter and an editor or IDE. This appendix lists the primary sources of Ruby and Rails development tools.

IDEs and Editors

Some Ruby programmers like to use simple text editors and run programs from the command line; others like a fully integrated IDE with built-in debugging. Here are some possibilities.

3rdRail

http://www.embarcadero.com/products/3rdrail/

This is a commercial Rails-centric IDE for Eclipse. It currently supports Rails 1.x and 2.x only.

Aptana RadRails

http://www.aptana.com/products/radrails/

This is a free Rails-centric IDE for Eclipse.

NetBeans

http://www.netbeans.org/ruby/

This is a free Ruby IDE for NetBeans. The future development of Ruby support in NetBeans has now been discontinued.

Ruby In Steel

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/

This is a commercial Ruby and Rails IDE for Visual Studio.

RubyMine

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

This is a commercial Ruby IDE with emphasis on Rails.

TextMate

http://www.macromates.com/

This is a Ruby editor for Mac OS X.