JRuby IDE support

Paolo,

What are the IDEs can be used to develop JRuby components. Does your book emphasize on learning JRuby?

Ruby is Ruby, whether or not it's JRuby: the same meta-programming techniques apply.

Any IDE that supports Ruby can be used to develop in JRuby; IDEs that also have strong Java support are better for JRuby.

David Newton wrote:Any IDE that supports Ruby can be used to develop in JRuby; IDEs that also have strong Java support are better for JRuby.

That brings another question, what IDE's support Ruby :wink:

Wouldn't a web search be a lot quicker than waiting for someone to do it for you?

NetBeans, IntelliJ, Eclipse w/ plugin, don't know what else. It also depends on your definition of IDE.

Anil Vupputuri wrote:

David Newton wrote:Any IDE that supports Ruby can be used to develop in JRuby; IDEs that also have strong Java support are better for JRuby.

That brings another question, what IDE's support Ruby :wink:

JetBrains RubyMine is impressive.

As mentioned, JetBrains RubyMine and Aptana RadRails (eclipse with Ruby/RoR plugins) are great IDEs. However, I'd recommend trying Ruby (or Rails for that matter) in a text-editor like TextMate instead. Here is a *dated* article describing the pros/cons of using a text-editor vs an IDE.

During my working day, I use eclipse (corporate standard) - though my clear preference would be TextMate, which is what I use exclusively outside of work.

How will you use TextMate in Windows? I have used Aptana RadRails (eclipse with Ruby/RoR plugins) successfully.

You can't use TextMate on Windows, it is an application for Mac OS X only.

You can, however, use e, which uses TextMate bundles.

David Newton wrote:You can, however, use e, which uses TextMate bundles.

Hi Dave,

I did not understand your reply. Can you please provide a link?

Vyas Sanzgiri wrote:

David Newton wrote:You can, however, use e, which uses TextMate bundles.

Hi Dave,

I did not understand your reply. Can you please provide a link?

Dave is referring to Windows version of TextMate, here is the link.

Anil Vupputuri wrote:

Vyas Sanzgiri wrote:

David Newton wrote:You can, however, use e, which uses TextMate bundles.

Hi Dave,

I did not understand your reply. Can you please provide a link?

Dave is referring to Windows version of TextMate, here is the link.

Is that recommended over Eclipse and Aptana?

Depends.

TextMate, or it's twin-sibling e are both "text-editors", and therefore quite different than a full featured IDE. It's a personal choice at best. I use IDEs all day at work, but greatly prefer the speed and simplicity of a text editor. JMHO

I come late to the party, just to confirm that RubyMine is really good. I still tend to be a TextMate freak, though. For a number of reasons, IDEs for Ruby are not as essential nor as powerful as IDEs for Java.

Vim and Emacs are both pretty popular in the Ruby community.

With Emacs, of course, being the better of the two ;)