RIDE-ME: Yet another Ruby on Rails IDE for Windows

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RIDE-ME: Yet another Ruby on Rails IDE for Windows

by Jordan Running (RSS feed) Aug 7th 2006 at 3:45PM

A year ago, developing a web application using Ruby on Rails (which recently turned two years old) on Windows was a bit of a pain due to the lack of a decent integrated development environment (IDE). Now we're practically swimming in them. Let's recap: There's RadRails, the popular cross-platform, Eclipsed-based editor, RoRED, one for Windows with a unique M/V/C tab grouping, Ruby in Steel, an add-on for Visual Studio 2005, and now RIDE-ME, a new Windows-only Rails IDE with an uncomfortable-sounding name. RIDE-ME bills itself as "geared primarily toward developers who are migrating from a Microsoft development platform," which puts it in competition with Ruby in Steel. Version 1.0 of RIDE-ME was just released, and when I tried it out I was impressed by its snappiness, but I did come across several fairly ugly bugs that seem more at home in a 0.9 or 1.0 beta. I won't be switching from RadRails just yet, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye on RIDE-ME.

Tags: development, freeware, ide, rails, ride-me, rideme, ruby, ruby on rails, RubyOnRails, windows

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Michael Leung said 9:30PM on 8-07-2006

Hey there,

Thanks for the review.

Would you be so kind as to send me the information about said bugs?

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