Best Rails text editor

[HostSeeker]

What do you consider to be the best Rails text editor for Mac OSX and Windows? From what I've read around, Xcode, Textmate and RubyMine are the most popular. Could you recommend me the one that is the most user-friendly?

[Ben Stones]

What do you consider to be the best Rails text editor for Mac OSX and Windows? From what I've read around, Xcode, Textmate and RubyMine are the most popular. Could you recommend me the one that is the most user-friendly?

You can definitely use Xcode on Mac OS X to develop Ruby-based applications. I was trying to learn Cocoa and Objective-C some time back (and failed, though learned a bit somewhat) and I learned that you can use other languages in Xcode too - not just Objective-C; Java for one, to create Mac OS X applications.

If you have a Mac, I'd recommend TextMate for Mac as it has a very good UI as well as under-the-hood commands you can use to do certain repetitive tasks for example. I only looked over these features briefly via the TextMate website but they look pretty powerful!

I'm not too knowledgeable about Windows text editors for Rails though. Just checked the RubyMine website and it looks pretty good. It's also available for Mac OS X and Linux as well as Windows which is a good thing!

Hope this helps.