Re: Ruby IDE

[Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:25 PM, HD Moore <hdm () metasploit com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 19:20 +0100, Varga-Perke Balint wrote:
> > As part of my university thesis I have to dive deep into the MSF code,
> > but I'm quite new to Ruby and I couldn't find any integrated
> > development solution which could speed up my work. I've tried Aptana,
> > but as I could see it focuses mostly on web development. Now I'm using
> > Emacs with rdebug, but somtimes this is not the most comfortable
> > solution for me (I'm not an Emacs guru either). What IDE do you use
> > for MSF development?
>
> For the most part we dont use IDEs, just standard text editors. I have
> tried a few to get a feel for how they work, including Aptana, Netbeans,
> Eclipse, Komodo, and SlickEdit. Of those, Netbeans and Eclipse (with a
> huge pile of plugins) seem OK, but personally I will stick with NEdit
> and VIM.
>
> -HD
>
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Vim and Nedit are also my choices for editing on Linux platforms.
However, if you use a Mac you should probably check out
Textwrangler[0] which offers the same features and benefits of Nedit
and more. (yes I know Nedit runs on a Mac, but Textwrangler doesn't
require X windows)

[0] - http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/

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Nigel Houghton
Head Mentalist
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