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 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
Windows : 780 MHz Intel Pentium III, 512 MB.
Solaris : 500 MHz UltraTM 60 workstation, 512 MB.
Linux : 800 MHz Intel Pentium III,512 MB.
Rubymine
Windows : Intel Pentium III/800 MHz or higher, 256 MB , Ruby SDK version 1.8.x.
Mac OS : 1.42 GHz G4, G5 or Intel-based Mac, 256 MB , Ruby SDK version 1.8.x.
Linux : Intel Pentium III/800 MHz or higher, 256 MB , Sun JDK 1.6,GNOME or KDE desktop,Ruby SDK version 1.8.x.
Features for Ruby
General
| Radrails | Netbeans | Rubymine | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free | $99 |
| License Type | Open Source | Open Source | Commercial |
| Available Standalone or as Eclipse Plugin | Available | Not Available | Not Available |
Editing
| Radrails | Netbeans | Rubymine | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code completion | Available | Available | Available |
| Syntax Highlighting | Available | Available | Available |
| Code analysis (warnings/errors/hints) | Available | Available | Available |
| spell checking support | Available | Available | Available |
| Type Hierarchy View | Available | Not Available | Available |
| Smart Indent | Available | Available | Available |
Refactoring
| Radrails | Netbeans | Rubymine | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renaming | Available | Available | Available |
| Extract method | Available | Available | Available |
| Inline class | Available | Not Available | Available |
| Inline method | Available | Not Available | Available |
Version Control Integration
Netbeans IDE directly supports CVS root types.For SVN the access is via custom protocol to an SVN server. For Git kenai.com supports subversion ,mercurial,and Git repositories.even we can specify our external source code
For Rubymine CVS is installed and turned on automatically. the Git integration is enabled. it supports SVN repositories too along with perforce( one of the subversions) integration
Radrails has the feature to install the three things as plugins.
| Radrails | Netbeans | Rubymine | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SVN | Available | Available | Available |
| Git | Available | Available | Available |
| CVS | Available | Available | Available |
Debugging Features All the Three IDE's supports ruby-debuggers. Netbeans supports classic debugger which is slow and ruby debugger, which is fast and only works with native ruby interpreter. Aptana also supports classic and ruby