Lowell Kirsh wrote:
> I've been having a tough time getting emacs set up properly with ruby
> which led me to look for a different IDE to use. Which led me to
> ownder: what editors/IDEs do most ruby users use?
vim. It's got a steep learning curve in comparison to other editors, but 
once you've mastered vim you'll never want anything else anymore :)

It's just so comfortable to use vim for you development: if you're on an
other machine, you'll only need putty/ssh to login to your own machine,
and use vim (and screen :)) to have a really nice development
environment. Screen is sort of a windowmanager for the console, you can
cycle through windows, detach the session and work on it later, etc. 
You should read the first part of: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/581/
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Best regards,
Chris Eidhof