As my primary development environment I use:
- FreeBSD (VMWare Player or real host)
- JOE as editor in terminal via PuTTY
- Firefox and Firebug from client side
I was again asked why not some IDE on Windows, since I’m working on Windows based laptop anyway. Well… I thought I would give IDE a chance… No, I don’t like Windows environment for developing software, and this relationship is bidirectional ;))
I have installed Ruby/RDT/Eclipse/MySQL and finally it looks like it works but I’m not impressed. I still feel not comfortable in this setup, but this not surprises me, since to I’ve been using JOE from beginning, this means 11 or more years.
From Windows I liked SciTE, editor included with Ruby distribution. I will try to use just command line and SciTE in Windows for a while and will see if I will like it more than current Eclipse setup. Or I just get used to Eclipse.
My older projects I’m still developing in JOE and still it is less annoying for me. Yeah, 11 years probably have something with it :)
I tried a lot of different text editors and IDE under Windows and finally settled for Netbeans.
The debugging environment, smart autocompletion and integration with Ruby and Rails is impressive. You should give it a try if you haven’t already.
Yes, NetBeans is good environment, however it has some drawbacks :) But I haven’t managed to find other IDE which would be at least as good as NetBeans…