Ruby on Rails Sunday, November 28, 2010

I vote for TextPad on Windows. You can download a syntax file for
color coding, it was a file explorer built in, which works well with
the Rails directory structure. I also use the "Find in Files" option
often.


Of course, I've been using TextPad for over 15 years so I might be a
bit biased.

On Nov 28, 9:57 am, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 28 November 2010 14:41, David Kahn <d...@structuralartistry.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> >> On 28 November 2010 02:11, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com>
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> >> > Andre Joseph Cubeta wrote in post #964087:
> >> >> +1 Edmond, hehe
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> >> >> @Emmanuel - go for Textmate for a good start if you're a Mac user,
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> >> > Or save the €80 and try KomodoEdit.
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> >> I like jEdit, which is also free and available on all platforms.
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> > Colin - do you find it to be fast enough -- I think I looked at it but did
> > not go further because I saw it is written in java and I guess I have heard
> > enough about slow java apps.... by any chance have you also used textmate
> > and can compare it?
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> jEdit does not seem slow to me (on Ubuntu), certainly comparable to
> codewright on windows which I used to use.  I have a four year old
> laptop and it runs fine.  There are lots of good plugins.  You need
> the project viewer for managing sets of files as a project (a rails
> app for example) and sidekick which does ruby parsing, method index
> and so on.  It has built in ruby syntax colouring.
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> Colin

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