Good and free Ruby editor for Windows?

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What's a good and free Ruby editor for Windows? Thanks!

Unless it's closed, should it be made community wiki? – Andrew Grimm Mar 30 '10 at 00:29 — Andrew Grimm, Mar 30 '10 at 00:29

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '10 at 13:37

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Get yourself Notepad++ it's an excellent lightweight text editor which is useful for lots of languages including ruby. There's tonnes of plugins too. I recommend you get the 'explorer' plugin which gives you a dockable directory explorer.

answered Mar 28 '10 at 13:37

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '10 at 13:37

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Netbeans is Free and Good

answered Mar 28 '10 at 13:37

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I dont like Netbeans his intellisense is the slowest i ever saw ! – Nicolas Guillaume Mar 28 '10 at 16:02
Oracle has bought Sun and therefore netbeans, and Oracle said that dynamic languages (Ruby, Python, PHP) are "going to be supported by the community" i.e. not by Oracle. Therefore Ruby support on netbeans may be uncertain. – blokeley Mar 28 '10 at 17:15
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As uncertain as emacs and vi! – Ken Mar 30 '10 at 01:42
The Ruby plugin doesn't work in Netbeans 7.4. There was a note about a hack to shoe horn it in, alas that didn't work on my installation. – will Dec 08 '13 at 02:02
today, I was able to get the "Ruby and Rails" plugin to work on Netbeans 8.2 it wasn't a huge amount of fuss, see the comments for that plugin here: http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/38549/ruby-and-rails#comm – robert May 25 '18 at 13:53

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 28 '10 at 13:44

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don't be a wimp, use emacs.

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Emacs is a good option on Linux not on windows ... On Windows use Notepad++. – Nicolas Guillaume Mar 28 '10 at 16:04
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Emacs works fine on Windows. For those of us with the Emacs key sequences programmed into our fingers, it's the only way to edit code when stuck on that platform. – Donal Fellows Mar 28 '10 at 16:12
emacs, notepad++, scite, ... all editors they don't stretch to the IDE level. – will Dec 08 '13 at 02:03

Nicolas Guillaume · Answer 4 · 2014-02-28T01:28:41.437

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RubyMine 2 is not free (88 Euros) but it's clearly the best Ruby IDE i've ever used!

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Aptana RADRails is eclipse tunned for ruby and rails. It's free too.

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 28 '10 at 17:04

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Emacs would be good if he asked for an OS. Now go get gvim.

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No processes or scheduler, no filesystems, no device drivers, no security model, memory protection, paging, multitasking, ... what exactly does Emacs have in common with an OS? – Ken Mar 30 '10 at 01:39

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 30 '10 at 01:26

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SciTE isn't a bad editor. Did you get it with ruby?

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Good and free Ruby editor for Windows?

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