WHY I USE GEDIT FOR
RUBY PROGRAMING AND WHY YOU SHOULD TO
When it comes to text editors
for Ruby, the most popular one are w/o a doubt TextMate and VIM, but I’ve been
using GEdit for a project in the place I work after I releases Notepad++ wasn’t
the editor for me, so here are the reasons I use GEdit for Ruby programming,
order is not important.
1.- Multiplatform and open source: It is
available on Linux, OSX and Windows, it is open source and of course won’t cost
you money.
2.- It’s pluggin architecture: GEdit can be extensible with
plugins, you can make your own or install the ones available over the internet,
there are several of useful plugins, like the integration with a version
control system, terminal, save sessions,
etc.
4.- Code completition: Yes, there is auto completition in
GEdit, it is very handy and saves a lot of key strokes, I wouldn´t change this
feature for anything.
5.- Code snippets: GEdit is a very Ruby friendly editor and code
snippets is a probe, just type “def” and GEdit will write the end and put the
cursor at the beginning of the method name, type “do” and it will but the “end”, it will also put the closing quotation marks
in a string, it is just amazing, and you can even add your own snippets.
6.- Tabbed interface: This is a must have for every
serious editor, but it doesn’t stop there, it can also show the documents on a
side pane, or you can see the structure of a whole folder, is up to you to
deside.
7.- Bookmarks: It comes with bookmarks so you can navigate to
every part of the document you want.
8.- Save sessions: You can save your sessions and open them
later, useful when managing projects with docents of files.
9.- Rails pluggin: With the rails plugin GEdit becomes an even
more powerful editor exclusive for your rails applications.
10.- Spell checker: Yes, very handy.
Try it http://live.gnome.org/Gedit
posted by Ramsees at 11:03 AM
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