Some of the Best IDE's for Ruby on Rails Developers

An IDE or Integrated/Interactive Development Environment can be defined as a software application that is designed to provide an array of comprehensive facilities to the software developers. Ruby on Rails, or Rails, the open source web application framework that runs through the Ruby programming language comes up with a string of these IDEs that provides some value added features to the software developers during development. Let us discuss some of them in details.

Most of the IDEs of Ruby is not limited exclusively to Ruby in terms of functionality. They come in the form standalone plugins from various companies who have put their money as well as time at stake to develop these IDEs for everyone to take benefit of. Let us discuss some of them.

Jetbrains RubyMine: RubyMine that comes from Jetbrains is available in version 5.4 of RubyMine. The IDE comes up with CoffeeScrift Debugger, JRuby Development and support for the text made bundles.

Aptana Studio 3: This particular IDE is Eclipse-based. The IDE can be termed as an extremely powerful open source IDE that helps in web development. It also supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript websites, debugging as well as previewing with Ruby on Rails as well as PHP.

Aptana Studio 3 comes up with a wide number of features like GIF integration, CSS, HTML, assists of JavaScript Code, integrated debugger, IDE Customization, deployment wizard. It provides support for various synchronized setups along with multiple protocols like FTP, FTPS, Capistrano, SFTP, etc. It also has the ability to publish automatically Ruby as well as ROR applications for hosting services like Engine Yard or Heroku.

Redcar Alpha: This is another IDE that is scripted in ruby and operates on JRuby. It supports a wide range of Textmate themes as well as snippets. This Integrated/Interactive Development Environment is an open source as well. The project is licensed under GPL.

Komodo : This is a multi-language ROR IDE, which supports Perl, Python, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, along with CSS. The User Interface of this IDE is lighter besides being cross platform in nature.

Komodo is basically made for the major web languages that include Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, CSS HTML, and JavaScript. The IDE comes up with a comprehensive tool set that provides the developers a hassle free and seamless environment for development.

RubyMine 6: JetBrains come up with an array of IDEs that are simply the best in the programming fraternity. One of them is RubyMine 6. It is not only one of the best, but the most sophisticated and modern one. RubyMine 6 comes up with a highly user-friendly structure, so much so that it is absolutely unparalleled.

JetBrains provides a comprehensive Ruby Code editor that is aware of various specifics of dynamic languages. It delivers a smart coding assistance, intelligent code analysis and refactoring capabilities. It helps in easy project configuration, Rake Gems support, and management. It is structured to bring dedicated RoR project structure views, quick navigational options of the Model-View-Controller. Code completion and last but not the least, refactorings.

Arcadia: This is yet another Ruby IDE, which does not extend any support whatsoever for the other languages. Arcadia is purely as well as exclusively focused on the development of Ruby alone. It is generally not run by any big corporation, and hence runs at a slower pace with the general updates and fixes taking much longer than the normal to take place.

Net Beans: Net Beans is open source and comes up with an application platform, which helps the developers in rapidly creating enterprise, web, desktop as well as mobile applications. The main platform of this IDE is Java. It supports, PHP, JavaFX, Ruby +Ruby on Rails, JavaScriptx, Groovy, Grails and C/C++. Consider hiring services of a Ruby on Rails development company to get maximum benefits.

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