Good Rails Editor Linux?
By chris on May 23rd 2008 in /dev/random | 966 views
One thing I tend to take for granted when using TextMate is the idea of the “Project” and the ensuing ability to search through an entire site easily. Drag a folder onto TextMate and *poof*, fully-searchable project. I often locate a file that needs to be worked on by searching for a chunk of text in the file rather than remembering which file contains the text.
Can anyone recommend a good graphical editor for Linux that affords the same functionality? (Let’s just assume that all the vim/vi/emacs suggestions have already been made and move past that, shall we? I’m not interested in accommodating the learning curve just to edit some HTML files locally.)
Matthew Platte responded on 25 May 2008 at 6:59 am #
ActiveState’s Komodo? What’s cool about Komodo is that it will let you use vi keystrokes!
/me runs for cover
chris responded on 30 May 2008 at 12:26 am #
I keep trying to like Komodo, which means I keep trying Komodo but it never seems to quite do it for me. I think it does too much too slowly for my liking, though I have a hard time putting that sense into clear perspective.
kingbin responded on 06 Jun 2008 at 8:19 pm #
I use eclipse with the ruby plugin. It’s cross platform so you can count on learning one thing and sticking with it. Plus there are a ton of plugins for eclipse that are amazing.
Fred responded on 12 Jun 2008 at 1:50 am #
Netbeans is free, and does what you want. They have a specially configured download for RoR folks, as it was born in the Java world.
The only problem is that it is a bit of a resource hog. You know you wanted to justify that 8-gigabyte quad-core desktop, well, here’s your chance.
It really is a very nice IDE. Very smart. Very fat.
Cheba responded on 18 Jun 2008 at 2:47 pm #
I’ve tried almost everything out there and haven’t found anything better then gvim + NERDtree.
chris responded on 18 Jun 2008 at 3:34 pm #
Gah - I let your comment live because you introduce something I’ve never heard of before (NERDtree). Probably because I don’t (yet) know vi