CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2011/ch1 1a lj

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CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2010/ch1 1a lj


Introduction

In this Wiki, several kinds of IDEs for Ruby language is shown and their features are compared carefully.

What is Ruby

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language. Ruby supports multiple programming paradigms, including functional, object oriented, imperative and reflective. It also has a dynamic type system and automatic memory management;

What is an IDE

An integrated development environment (IDE) (also known as integrated design environment, integrated debugging environment or interactive development environment) is a application software that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of:


Popular IDEs for Ruby

Eclipse

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment (IDE) and an extensible plug-in system. It is written mostly in Java and can be used to develop applications in Java and, by means of various plug-ins, other programming languages including Ada, C, C++, COBOL, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby (including Ruby on Rails framework), Scala, Clojure, Groovy and Scheme.

Aptana

rubymine

Textmate

Redcar

NetBeans (6.0)

Geany

gEdit

XCode

emacs

RDT

IntelliJ Idea

Comparison of Different IDEs for Ruby

Summary

References