See one person's take on your question here:

http://lifeonrails.org/2007/8/30/netbeans-the-best-ruby-on-rails-ide

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joe



Miquel Oliete wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I've been a long long time searching a Ruby IDE for my Ruby coding and
> finally I have found two of them...and this is the problem.
>
> The first one I have found is Netbeans (Java IDE by Sun) and the second
> one is Eclipse with the Ruby Plugin. Both of them are free software.
>
> Could somebody tell me which one is the best one to code in Ruby (both
> can be executed in Linux and Windows platforms, which are the two
> platforms I use everyday)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Best regards
>
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> Miquel (a.k.a. Ktala.k.a. Ton)
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>
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