What Ruby IDE do you prefer?

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wvdschel picture wvdschel · Aug 19, 2008 · Viewed 425.9k times · Source

I've been using Eclipse with RDT (not RadRails) a lot lately, and I'm quite happy with it, but I'm wondering if you guys know any decent alternatives. I know NetBeans also supports Ruby these days, but I'm not sure what it has to offer over Eclipse.

Please, list any features you think are brilliant or useful when suggesting an IDE, makes it easier to compare.

Also, I said Ruby, not Rails. While Rails support is a plus, I prefer things to be none Rails-centric. It should also be available on Linux and optionally Solaris.

Answer

rlovtang picture rlovtang · Jul 25, 2009

RubyMine from JetBrains. (Also available as a plugin to IntelliJ IDEA)

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