[Rails] 'Best' IDE for testing and debugging

[Brian Hogan]

Yes, Matt. It does, thanks to Ruby Developer Tools and the Web Tools
platform for Eclipse.. I have some Rails-specific templates available on my
site. If you follow those instructions, you'll be able to do quite a bit of
completion.

In an editor (rb or rhtml files) you can do CTRL + Spacebar and then type
letters to start the completion process. It's actually very handy and the
only way we get stuff done around here.

See http://www.napcs.com/howto/railsonwindows.html for details.

As I learn more about Rails, I add more to the template files for my build.

And I just received some wonderful news today that just by using the Mac
version of Eclipse, my instructions can {mostly) be followed to make the
environment available on the Mac under OSX.

Instructions for Linux are coming soon, as I finally have it working on
Debian.



On 2/20/06, Matt Torok <magicmat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/17/06, Hogan, Brian P. <HOGANBP at uwec.edu> wrote:
> > Bill:
> >
> > If you're interested in Eclipse and RDT, I might suggest the setup I use
> > in my development. I find it much more useful than RadRails*** but you
> > have to build it yourself. (I do provide downloadable configuration
> > files and templates to speed up the process.
> >
> > http://www.napcs.com/howto/railsonwindows.html
> >
> > Screens here:
> > http://www.napcs.com/howto/railsonwindows-screens.html
> >
> >
> > *** RadRails http://www.radrails.org is coming along nicely though.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rails-bounces at lists.rubyonrails.org
> > [mailto:rails-bounces at lists.rubyonrails.org] On Behalf Of Mark Wilden
> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:48 PM
> > To: rails at lists.rubyonrails.org
> > Subject: Re: [Rails] 'Best' IDE for testing and debugging
> >
> >
> > > On 2/17/06, Bill Walton <bill.walton at charter.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I'm trying to decide which IDE to go with for RoR development.  I put
> >
> > >> a
> > >> high
> > >> premium on integrated test automated tools and debugging
> > capabilities.
> > >> I'd
> > >> appreciate any sharing of experience.
> >
> > I'm using Eclipse with Ruby Development Tools. I don't tend to use the
> > debugger very often, but it does work. The unit testing facilities are
> > fine.
> > And there's the extensibility of Eclipse (for example, I use the vi
> > plug-in).
> >
> > In fact, I've gone off the Rails for a bit to play around with Eclipse
> > plug-in development.
> >
> > ///ark
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>
> Does Eclipse, in any form, support code completion and/or code
> formatting? By code completion I don't mean diving my method names
> from objects, but more like when I type "def foo", it automatically
> inserts "end" below it. Same thing for code formatting, when I type
> "def foo" or "if object.empty?", it'll automatically indent me two
> more spaces when hit enter, end  un-indent me when I type "end".
>
> It's a deal-breaker for me and when I last tried Eclipse it didn't do
> this. Am I just ignorant about how to turn this on?
>
> Also, I've been mighty disappointed in Komodo. I loved Komodo for PHP
> work, but it just isn't Ruby ready. The RHTML support is awful, the
> debugging breaks your scripts more often than it works, and it lacks
> all but the most basic niceties for Ruby editing.
>
> Unfortunately, the best editor I've found that'll run on Windows is
> jEdit. I say unfortunately because, being written in Java + SWING,
> it's slow as all get out to use. It just has that sluggish Java bloat
> to it that we all know and hate. It also takes a whole 'lotta
> configuration to get up and running in any usable way. But even with
> all of that, it still works the best. At least until UltraEdit gets
> Ruby support or Komodo cleans up its act.
>
> Really, a good editor is one of my biggest hang-ups with using Rails.
> I love the framework to death, but actually writing code for it is an
> excercise in constant frustration. I really wish TextMate would be
> ported to Windows, it would really help Rails adoptation.
>
> --
> -Matt Torok
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