Linux Text Editor for Ruby and Rails

I’ve been struggling to find a text editor for developing in Linux. I went through jEdit, gedit, emacs, vi, and even NetBeans (I know, it’s an IDE). None of them really could really help me with my addiction to TextMate on Mac. I even modified gedit to look like TextMate, but that really didn’t help much. I would always go back to vi/vim.

This time around, I finally settled on geany. You can get this wonderful editor at http://geany.uvena.de and if you’re using Ubuntu, get the latest at the link provided the site. With its file browser plugin, it gives me somewhat similar experience as TextMate.

I highly recommend this editor if you’re frustrated with current text editor.

August 12, 2008 | Filed Under Rant

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2 Responses to “Linux Text Editor for Ruby and Rails”

  1. MartinH on November 26th, 2008 2:53 pm

    I’ve been using Geany for a little while now in my Rails development and am starting to want it to do a little more.
    I’ve written a couple of code snippets that work fine but want the editor to recognise .erb files properly.
    Has anybody managed to do that?
    Martin

  2. Joon on November 26th, 2008 3:53 pm

    Interesting… I think I’ll work on it this weekend unless my family objects to it.

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