I’ve been reading through the book Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson, and there is a review of various editor’s, such as:

  • TextMate
  • RadRails
  • jEdit
  • Komodo
  • Arachno Ruby

While this opinion may change down the road, just starting out, I found it incredibly hard to find an editor that works. Textmate works on Mac, so that’s out of the picture. RadRails seems to have a long and exhaustive install process–no thanks! Jedit, I couldn’t get to work at all!

So after a bit more Googling I came across Geany. Now things might change later on, after I get to use this more, but for now it’s working. Hopefully this is the first blog of many on my travels in Ruby on Rails development!