Comments on Tektastic: Aptana - Please Don't Suck Any Harder

Hi Konstantin,I'm sorry to hear that you're having...

2008-04-23T03:01:00.000-07:00

Hi Konstantin,

I'm sorry to hear that you're having issues and I'd like to help. As part of our RadRails release, we spent a significant amount of time adding many new features and fixing existing bugs with the goal of giving people a great Rails development environment.

It sounds as if Aptana Studio may have had an issue with some old configuration information when you re-installed. You might try the steps here to see if it solves your issue:

http://www.aptana.com/node/251

We're mostly Mac users here. I'm trying out the latest version of the standalone version on OS X 10.5.2 and I'm unable to reproduce the Apple-Shift-R issue, so any help in reproducing the problem so we can fix the issue would be greatly appreciated.

Adam, there are certainly options. IntelliJ IDEA ...

2008-04-22T23:20:00.000-07:00

Adam, there are certainly options. IntelliJ IDEA now has support for ruby, but IDEA is not free. TextMate is the tool of choice for the majority of Rails developers, but I personally always preferred the integrated multi-window environment. That said, I am pretty much switching to TextMate now, but unfortunately not because of free will but because I have to get some work done :)

I can't speak for the Mac version, but I haven't h...

2008-04-22T23:06:00.000-07:00

I can't speak for the Mac version, but I haven't had stability problems on either my Linux or Windows machine. The Linux one was using ridiculous CPU for a while, but I switched to Sun-Java and that seemed to sort it out.

That said, it's certainly not the best for anything but Javascript. But doesn't Mac have better Rails options anyhow?