Time for action – Installing Development Environments—IDE

There is no shortage of Ruby-supported IDEs. You can use any IDE of your choice that supports Ruby. All are cross-platform, and have plenty of nice features. I encourage you to try them and see if they work for you. The following IDEs are my personal choices that I would recommend:

  • Macintosh OS X: textmate
  • Linux: gedit
  • Windows Netbeans, Redrails, Ruby-mine, Scite

You can choose any one of the above IDEs. Also, Rhomobile recently launched RhoStudio Beta, the IDE for Rhomobile. It is a local Eclipse IDE that performs app generation, editing, and build of all Rhodes projects. You can download Rhostudio from https://github.com/rhomobile/rhostudio/.

What just happened?

We have just installed your favourite IDE on the platform that you are using. Now we are ready to create our first application.