IDEs
- Eclipse with ruby DLT currently only supports up to Ruby 1.8 (Quite a big language change in 1.9 so not much good)
- RubyMine - excellent, but ~£90 (look out for offers from Jetbrains, they run them regularly)
- Aptana Studio - Built on eclipse but full ruby support (or at least 1.9 language support)
Build Tools
- Rake - (Ruby mAKE). Like ant / make for ruby
- Look in the 'Rakefile' and see targets defined. (e.g. 'rake test' will often run tests)
- Gem - repository of compiled modules for ruby
- See usage 'gem --help'.
- gem install <gem name> / gem uninstall <gem name>
- Bundle - Used to manage dependencies for a project. (Use 'bundle install')
- Gemfile contains list of repositories and files to use
Testing
- Rake - Test call minitest / rspec files etc..
- Minitest - https://github.com/seattlerb/minitest
