Tag Archive for 'productivity'

eclips3.media (ECLM) TextMate Theme

Published by liquid 11 months, 3 weeks ago in General. 5 Comments2,120 views

I usually check several development forums and I’ve found a thread on Rails Forum about development environments where people share a screenshot about their tools. I did this too, after several examples. Since my TextMate Theme got so many respects I decided to share it with the public.

One of its main benefits is that it separates the different data structures, functions, variables, comments, etc. So it is easier to look up your code.

Development Environment

So, if you like it, it can be found here.

Copyright: This theme was originally improved from the one what we can see in Ryan Bates’ Railscasts.

Using Visual Studio as a Ruby On Rails IDE

Published by liquid 1 year, 3 months ago in Ruby on Rails. 2 Comments2,190 views

Microsoft Visual StudioThere are lots of good editors for Ruby development, such as Aptana (formerly known as RadRails) which is based on the Eclipse framework so it needs lots of resources to run (because is is based on Java). An other solution can be RoRED. RoRED seems to be OK, but I really miss lots of features from it.

If I say IDE, I mean a full featured environment with project management, useful editor and debugging features. And this is when Visual Studio comes in. Microsoft’s Visual Studio is one of the most famous IDEs, used by lots of programmers who have to focus on .Net, ASP, C, C++, C#. But what about Ruby developers? Since now it can be used as a Ruby On Rails IDE with a “small extension” built by SapphireSteel Software: Ruby In Steel.

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TextMate: The best Ruby On Rails editor for OS X

Published by liquid 1 year, 3 months ago in Ruby on Rails. 0 Comments2,086 views

TextMateIn the development scene lots of people are using Macs and OS X. If you can afford to buy a Mac (or you already have one or maybe more :)) the best choice for you must be TextMate. I can say it is the best code editor what I’ve seen so far on the OS X platform. It has lots of useful features, such as text snippets (for Ruby On Rails as well). Continue reading ‘TextMate: The best Ruby On Rails editor for OS X’