Tools for Development

Feel free to add to our tool collection!

Essentials

Editors, IDE's

  • Textmate The best text editor for the mac, comes with a $39 price tag. See this link for information on how to enhance the usefulness.
  • Aptana/Radrails An open-source Ruby/Rails IDE based on Eclipse
  • NetBeans Another open-source IDE with full Ruby/Rails support
  • Arachno Ruby A ruby and rails IDE.
  • E-Texteditor A kind of Textmate-clone for windows.

Debugging

It's a bit bleak in the department of full-blown graphical debuggers.