CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2009/wiki1a 6 aa
CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2009/wiki1a 6 aa
Introduction
This page tries to review Integrated Development Environments for Ruby such as Aptana,Rubymine and Netbeans. Also the IDEs are compared with respect to certain dimensions such as facilities, ease of use, system requirements, and support for the Ruby way of thinking.
Different IDEs for Ruby
Ruby being one of the fast growinglanguges for web development has currently has many Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that support it.the following list gives different IDEs currently in market which support Ruby on Rails and Ruby.
- Aptana RadRails 1.0
- NetBeans IDE 6.7
- JetBrains Rubymine
- SapphireSteel Ruby in Steel Developer Edition 1.2 and Text Edition 1.1.5
- ActiveState Komodo IDE 4.3 and Edit 4.3
- embarcadero 3rdRail
- MacroMates TextMate
- E Text Editor
- Intype
Comparision of Aptana,Netbeans and Rubymine
Three prominent IDEs namely Aptana, Netbeans and Rubymine are compared in the following sections with respect to features offered with respect to both ruby and Ruby on Rails
System Requirements
The three IDEs mentioned support cross platform and their minimum hardware requirement is given below