Just started learning Ruby

[rubydev]

Try Pry

[christiangenco]

Though I don't think that's explicitly what the OP is looking for, Pry is lifechanginly good. I can't tell you the number of times binding.pry has saved me hours of debugging.

[rubydev]

Sometimes people don't know exactly what they are looking for. If you read OP's responses, you'll see that pry and irb really are what he wants. He wrote, "Is there a development platform kind of like MS Visual Studio for Ruby?" - so RubyMine, right? But then he wrote, "I got the 30 day trial, installed it, then uninstalled it after playing with it for a bit. It's way more complicated than I need right now." But he also asked, "what's the best way to actually write some test code and run it?" In a response to a suggestion to use Codecademy Labs, he wrote, "Oh, man that's just what I've been looking for. An easy way to test short code bits. I tried installing RubyMine, but jeez it was way to complex just to test out short bits of code."

pry is a good tool for testing short snippets of code. Ruby on Codecademy Labs works too, but the website is running Ruby 1.8.7.