Tools for Development
Feel free to add to our tool collection!
Essentials
- Subversion. It comes with a great Online Book
- Ruby on Rails. For now, we'll develop with the current stable version. See the Download Page for installation options.
Editors, IDE's
- Textmate The best text editor for the mac, but comes with a $39 price tag. See this link for information on how to enhance the usefulness.
- Aptana/Radrails The only full-featured, open-source Rails IDE so far.
- Arachno Ruby A ruby and rails IDE.
- RoRED A free editor for ruby and rails.
- E-Texteditor A kind of Textmate-clone for windows.
Debugging
It's a bit bleak in the department of full-blown graphical debuggers.
- ruby-debug is faster than the standard debugger.
- Comments on Rails debugging tools
- Another entry on Rails debugging
- Integrating stuff with Textmate
