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What's a good Ruby development environment for the Mac? [closed]

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I used to develop Java on the mac and it worked out well, combo of just using the terminal and IntelliJ. What are good tools that run on the mac for doing Ruby development

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Chumpboy Avatar asked Apr 13 '09 18:04

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Most of the Rails people develop on Macs and use TextMate. As a result, TextMate has great support for Ruby and Rails, and is probably the best text editor to use for developing Ruby code on the Mac.

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mipadi Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 06:10

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Netbeans is a fantastic choice with lots of good features for debugging, refactoring, db browsing, source control and lots more.

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Brian Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 07:10

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I use emacs, which has a fine ruby mode.

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Bryan Oakley Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 05:10

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I'll second/third the Textmate recommendation. Calling it a text editor is doing a bit of disservice. Start off with this PDF that has some useful ruby/rails textmate shortcuts

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AdminMyServer Avatar answered Oct 21 '22 05:10

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