CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2009/wiki1a 6 aa

CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2009/wiki1a 6 aa

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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 for different operating systems

Aptana studio

       Windows
 
       512 MB RAM
       Pentium 4-level processor 
        
       Mac OS   
       512 MB RAM
       G5 or Intel-based machine 
       
       Linux    
       512 MB RAM
       Pentium 4-level processor 

Netbeans

       Microsoft Windows operating systems: 
       Processor: 780 MHz Intel Pentium III workstation or equivalent
       Memory: 512 megabytes

Disk space: 125 megabytes of free disk space

SolarisTM operating system: Processor: 500 MHz UltraTM 60 workstation or equivalent Memory: 512 megabytes Disk space: 125 megabytes of free disk space

Linux operating system: Processor: 800 MHz Intel Pentium III workstation or equivalent Memory: 512 megabytes Disk space: 125 megabytes of free disk space

Rubymine

       Microsoft Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000
    	Intel Pentium III/800 MHz or higher (or compatible)

256 MB RAM minimum 1 GB RAM recommended Ruby SDK version 1.8.x or higher 1024x768 minimum screen resolution

       Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard)

1.42 GHz G4, G5 or Intel-based Mac recommended 256 MB RAM minimum 1 GB RAM recommended 1024x768 minimum screen resolution Ruby SDK version 1.8.x or higher

       Linux
       Intel Pentium III/800 MHz or higher (or compatible)

256 MB RAM minimum 1 GB RAM recommended 1024x768 minimum screen resolution Sun JDK 1.6 GNOME or KDE desktop Ruby SDK version 1.8.x or higher