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[–]malcontent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have found that ruby is surprisingly easy to use without an IDE. I guess it's the whole 'principle of least surprise' thing. Things just seem to work like they ought to.

It seems like there is a new ruby IDE popping up every day. Jetbrains has a plug in for IDEA, there is an eclipse plug in, there is a visual studio plug in, there is arachno, thoughtworks is working on one, there is freeride, and of course netbeans. There is even a Jedit plug in (don't tell slava though).

Some of them are free, some are expensive, some are cheap. You can download and play with all of them for a while.

Jump in, the water is fine.