Development Tools for Mac
According to the Rails mailinglist the software used in the rails-videos is- TextMate which naturally supports “Smart typing” with auto completion.
- iTerm as an replacement for the OSX built-in Terminal application.
- www.jedit.org
- jEdit Ruby Plugin
(jEdit+ruby plugin in action see) - Abbreviations – Get TextMate-like functionality for jEdit
- Ruby on Rails on Jedit – Setting up jEdit for Ror Development
- jEdit for ruby/rails development
Emacs + rails.el (cross-platform)
Development enviroment based on emacs. See HowToUseEmacsWithRails.
Development Tools for Windows
Eclipse with RDT
Brian Hogan wrote a great setup-documentation at http://www.napcs.com/howto/railsonwindows.html
Some comments on using Brian’s setup process for Rails on Eclipse:- It’s well worth the effort – you get to code rhtml, ruby, create projects, generate scaffolds, controllers etc, view and edit your MySQL database and more all in a single IDE.
- Brian frequently updates this based on feedback provided by end users.
Much of this functionality is being provided by radrails at http://radrails.org. You can integrate it into Eclipse or run it as stand alone. I prefer the integration as stand alone takes away many of the eclipse options. Here is the update site for Eclipse: http://download.radrails.org/update
UltraEdit and SQL-Tools
Stephan wrote an post in his Weblog about how to set up a Rails-Development enviroment with Ultra Edit and some SQL-Query-Tool
http://brosinski.com/stephan/2005/06/14/ruby-on-rails-development-on-windows/
RDE Ruby Development Environment
Very good Ruby development environment for Windows. RDE has:- syntax highlighting
- auto indent
- autocomplete
- debugger
- unicode support
- mouse guestures
- project management and files panel
- code overview panel
- and more…
Visit homepage for details, it is in English and Japanese. http://homepage2.nifty.com/sakazuki/rde_e.html
Zeus
Zeus is a general purpose IDE for the Windows platform:
http://www.zeusedit.com/lookmain.html
Features include like class browsing, syntax highlighting, smart indent, project/workspace management, integrated version control and can more.