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Bas
Bas

Reputation: 27115

Ruby IDE (from a Visual Studio background)

For a university I was advised to learn Ruby before starting. I have a strong .NET background (with C#) and would like to find an IDE for Ruby. I'm currently very familiar with/used to VS2010 and VS2012.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6940

Answers (7)

user1182000
user1182000

Reputation: 1635

I wrote an IDE called visualruby which works like Visual Basic. You build your forms visually using the glade interface designer.

Take a look at

http://visualruby.net

Upvotes: 2

James White
James White

Reputation: 1994

If you already have Visual Studio 2010 installed (seems to always be installed as part of other Microsoft Tools) Ruby In Steel 2.0 is definitely worth a look. Sure, it's using an older shell but it's fast and familiar.

Upvotes: 0

codatory
codatory

Reputation: 686

RubyMine is the closest to Visual Studio, and is a great way to transition into writing Ruby code. Unfortunately, once you join a team that doesn't use an IDE you're going to have a hard time keeping one happy.

IDE's usually require "hints" about the code and with Ruby's dynamic nature it gets really easy to write code the IDE can't understand.

Upvotes: 1

Jörg W Mittag
Jörg W Mittag

Reputation: 369604

Which IDE has the most similarities with Visual Studio?

Visual Studio, of course!

Is there a certain prominent IDE that is far better than it's competitors?

RubyMine is sometimes cited as the best one. Personally, I haven't used it, so I can't comment on it. RubyMine is basically a lean (i.e. without the Java support) version of IntelliJ IDEA with the IDEA Ruby Plugin pre-installed.

I have always used the NetBeans Ruby Plugin and have been somewhat satisfied with it.

Now, if you have experience with IDEs for other dynamic languages such as Lisp or Smalltalk, then all of the Ruby IDEs, whether that be RubyMine, Eclipse RDT, Eclipse DLTK/Ruby, Ruby in Steel, RadRails or 3rd Rail, or "IDEs" such as Vim, Emacs, TextMate, Sublime, etc. will feel like primitive stone age tools in comparison.

Upvotes: 3

Robert K
Robert K

Reputation: 30328

I find RubyMine by JetBrains to be the closest to Visual Studio that I've found. It's paid, comes with support, and is built off of Eclipse (I think).

If you're interested in using a text editor, I've found Sublime Text 2 to be a very nice choice. I used to use TextMate all the time, but I'm gradually switching to Sublime Text.

Upvotes: 4

Solomon
Solomon

Reputation: 7053

All the people I know use a text editor for Ruby (at my company either Vim, or Sublime Text 2). Not that Ruby programmers can't use an IDE, but they generally don't.

If you're looking to learn Ruby, might be worth trying it out without a full fledged IDE.

Upvotes: 0

8vius
8vius

Reputation: 5836

I believe both Netbeans and Eclipse have plugins for Ruby, between the two I personally prefer Netbeans, but I only use them for Java programming. For Ruby I use Vim which you can customize into whatever needs you have.

Upvotes: 0

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