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Submitted by T
over 10 years

I'm looking for a good Ruby IDE for Windows 7

Can anyone recommend one, and explain how to install it?

Answer 51e28cf48c1cccc7e6002b0b

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Are you really looking for a full-blown IDE (as in integrated development environment), or just for a way of running Ruby programs locally on your Windows machine?

If it’s the latter, take a look at RubyInstaller.

If you really need all the features and added complexity of the former, there are plenty of options in this SO thread, of which I personally only tried (but wasn’t particularly impressed by) Aptana Studio.

Alternatives (one uglier than the next) seem to be NetBeans, whose Ruby support is no longer built in but has to be added separately, and Arcadia, which, as far as I can tell, is the only one written in Ruby.

But unless you intend to build large libraries and really need all that IDE jazz, I’d recommend to just try the old school approach: a good text editor with syntax highlighting, a browser window with the Ruby documentation, and a command-line terminal window (such as Cygwin or the built-in Windows Powershell) with irb (or better yet, pry) to test and execute Ruby snippets.

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Submitted by Alex J
over 10 years

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shanaya shekhar over 8 years

hey .. info you provided is very beneficial .. i was searching for the solution .. thanks

Answer 530f758952f8634d4f00058f

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Hey T,

check out this post,

Top 5 Ruby IDE Solutions for Web Developers

seems to have an updated list of what’s out there right now.

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Submitted by Alex
about 10 years

Answer 5343ae96548c358bcd000c1b

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I like Codelobster

It is easy and fast editor that support Ruby syntax too.

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Submitted by Stas Ustimenko
almost 10 years

Answer 526893bdabf8213dff00169f

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Another great editor for Ruby and other languages is Sublime.

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Submitted by Ricky Eckhardt
over 10 years

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Stochita about 9 years

You are partially right, but to be more precise this is not an IDE, it’s just a programming text editor.

Answer 52d751f952f863c23a000182

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RubyMine is a very good one as well.

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Submitted by SlipperSpeed
about 10 years