[Rails] ''Best'' IDE for testing and debugging

Brian Hogan
Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:29:54 -0000

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@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/17/06, Hogan, Brian P. <HOGANBP@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@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > [mailto:rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org] On Behalf Of Mark Wilden
> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:48 PM
> > To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
> > Subject: Re: [Rails] ''Best'' IDE for testing and
debugging
> >
> >
> > > On 2/17/06, Bill Walton <bill.walton@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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