Ruby Programming/Ruby editors

What is Ruby IDE ?

Integrated development environment or IDE is a software tool generally contains at least a debugger, a source code editor, and build automation tools.

There are a few of text editor/IDE that can be used for Ruby Programming language (arranged alphabetically) as shown below :

Although you can write Ruby programs with any plain text editor, some text editors have additional features to aid the Ruby programmer. The most common is syntax highlighting.

P.S 1: For the ease of readers, the book will be dealing with Notepad++ as the more popular Ruby IDE, ATOMS will be sun-setted by GitHub in 15 Dec 2022.

P.S 2: Pulsar is fork from ATOM IDE. Listed below for conveniences.

Arcadia

Price: (Free as in beer)

Website: https://www.arcadia-ide.org/

GNU Emacs

Price: (Free as in beer)

Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

ICEcoder

Price: (Free as in beer)

Website: https://icecoder.net/

Komodo

Price: (Free as in beer)

Website: https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/

Notepad++

Price: (Free as in beer)

Website: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Pulsar

Price: (Free as in beer)

Recommended for Freeware

Website: https://pulsar-edit.dev/

Ruby Packages: https://web.pulsar-edit.dev/packages/search?q=ruby

RubyMine

Price: (Annual subscription fee)

Recommended for Paidware

Website: https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/whatsnew/

Sublime Text

Price: (One off payment and receives 3 years of continuous updates)

Website: https://www.sublimetext.com/

Vim

Price: (Free as in beer)

Website: https://www.vim.org/download.php#pc

References

Here is a link of spreadsheet of the various options available.