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Can any one recommend a good all-in-one web development tool for Windows.
Something on par with Coda, which is only available for Mac OS X?
I have not used Coda by myself, but believe that whatever it has, you can find in Sublime Text 2 as well, check it out. For remote files access, you can use an utility like ExpanDrive that mounts remote drive as local disk.
I love Komodo Edit. I recommend that you try it.
I Tried NotePad++
And it is in fact very cool, However,
it crashes from time to time and it can delete your work! :O,
sadly i haven't found anything like CODA for the PC
so i'm staying with the mac
i think you can use notepad++ with ftp_synchronize plug-in so you can remotely edit files on server ;)
As far as I can tell, nothing gets close to Coda on mac. It's pretty sad.
I love Coda and use it professionally every day. However, I'm going to check out Aptana Studio and Komodo IDE on the PC---they both look like they could be very good.
Note that Coda is not free (download, $99), so the answer presumably shouldn't be limited to free PC software in order to compare apples to apples (pun intended).
Cheers!
I used PHPed myself, the best for me
I've looked and NetBeans 7.x is about as close as I've found. Coda is much more than an editor...it does Subversion, has an excellent built-in CSS editor, and allows really elegant local development and publish-to-host workflow. Even NetBeans is only local or remote, but can't deal with both in one project. However, NetBeans' MySQL integration is very handy.
Isn't Coda just a text editor? For Windows there is notepad++.
I use KomodoEdit and it does not even compare to Coda. Coding on a Mac is a lot different as you can have a built in terminal. A windows equivalent would have to have a plugin for putty or something similar.
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I am searching an HTML5 & CSS3 text editor for Mac OS X. What would you suggest?
Please give a short description as well as some information about pricing (free? commercial? trial?).
By the way, I am aware that there is the ability to take WineBottler/Wine to make certain Windows applications work in OS X. If you definitely know that a certain Windows HTML5 & CSS3 editor works in Mac OS X and it is worth it, please mention it.
Thank you!
Coda, BBEdit, and TextMate are--in my opinion--the most popular text editors for web development. TextMate has a 30-day free trial and is $57 USD. Coda is $99 USD and does not have a free trial (to my knowledge). And BBEdit is $99 USD and has a free trial (don't know how long it is).
For a free text editor, you can use TextWrangler from the same people who made BBEdit.
My personal preference is Vim / MacVim; but learning the Vim language is probably overkill if you're just doing just HTML / CSS. I would recommend trying out all of these and seeing what you like the most.
EDIT: A final note, everything I listed here is highly extensible and if there is a feature you like in one, it has most likely been ported to one or more of the other editors as well. Keep this in mind, because you shouldn't immediately dismiss any particular editor for what it offers as a default install.
If you're really particular about your editor (which you should be, as it's the single most important tool in your arsenal) then you should also look at available plugins for each code editor to get a true picture of what they can and cannot do.
I realise it might be overkill, but I really like using NetBeans for Javascript / HTML5 stuff. The JS completion is really helpful and it handles things like Canvas 2D API methods.
One drawback is that it doesn't seem to support CSS3.
I also recommend Textmate, if you willing to spend money. Its very comfortable to code html/css/js.
Personally I code in jEdit or Eclipse. They're crossplatform compatible and opensource.
edit: both provide tons of plugins :)
I like Aptana Studio. If you take the time to configure it's preferences it's a powerful editor.
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I used to develop Java on the mac and it worked out well, combo of just using the terminal and IntelliJ. What are good tools that run on the mac for doing Ruby development
Most of the Rails people develop on Macs and use TextMate. As a result, TextMate has great support for Ruby and Rails, and is probably the best text editor to use for developing Ruby code on the Mac.
Netbeans is a fantastic choice with lots of good features for debugging, refactoring, db browsing, source control and lots more.
I use emacs, which has a fine ruby mode.
I'll second/third the Textmate recommendation. Calling it a text editor is doing a bit of disservice. Start off with this PDF that has some useful ruby/rails textmate shortcuts
TextMate is an excellent editor, and is probably the best editor for Ruby code, as mipadi said. For an open source alternative, you could also try Smultron. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it does the job quite nicely.
I love TextMate although have been flirting with NetBeans. If you like a full-featured (aka bloated) IDE, give it a try. Pretty nice:
http://wiki.netbeans.org/Ruby
JetBrains (the people behind IntelliJ) are working on an IDE specifically for Ruby on Rails: RubyMine.
if you like vim, adding onto it with fuzzyfilefinder (http://github.com/jamis/fuzzy_file_finder/tree/master) and rails.vim (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1567) plugins provides a really nice experience.
if you don't like vim, textmate is a decent text editor.
You have used IntelliJ already? You should probably take a look at the Ruby/Rails integration. It supports things like debugging, code analysis and refactorings, etc.
TextMate is my favorite, but if you want code completion NetBeans is the best choice (Aptana/RedRails is outdated). Nightly builds of NB has a lot nicer OSX look and feel.
If you're coming from *nix and you like Vim, then MacVim.
If you're coming from any other OS and/or you don't like Vim, then TextMate.
TextMate is not free, but it's well worth the €39. Trust me on this. It will pay for itself many, many times over.
MacVim or AquaEmacs are really the best choice for people developing on Mac who want to get the most out of their editor: for people less particular, Textmate is the way to go.
I always recommend VIM/Emacs to anyone because
They are not GUI based, which means everything they do is easily modifiable and scriptable
They are much more easily extendable
You can use them on a server
They are generally faster as there is less code in between you and the underlying operating system
They usually support more languages and varied development styles
They are much more transparent and understandable as to what they are doing
By necessity everything is accomplishable via a keyboard shortcut, so developing on them is faster
Sublime Text 2, as recommended by a colleague (I don't have personal experience with it).
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I've been using vim, but after reading this question was wondering what is being used in the linux world.
There's also Netbeans: http://ruby.netbeans.org/
If you'd rather be using a light text editor instead of a heavy IDE, then I'd highly recommend going with GEdit with some additional plugins.
Here's an excellent guide on how to turn your GEdit into a "Linux Textmate":
Pimp My GEdit
If you want more of a IDE, then Netbeans is the current benchmark for Ruby IDEs.
I have used and really like Ruby Mine from JetBrains. It's been around since around 2008, here's the link for that: http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/index.html
I use Diakonos. Written in Ruby, you can script it with Ruby, and manipulate text with Ruby. No dependencies (except Ruby itself).
I use Eclipse with Aptana RadRails: http://aptana.com/rails
but if you need only Ruby you can use RDT instead: http://rubyeclipse.sourceforge.net/
I'm surprised no one has mentioned jEdit - it has a whole slew of plugins for Ruby, and unlike many other editors with Ruby support, it is very stable. There are edit modes + syntax coloration for erb, rb, javascript, haml, etc. etc. I have it set up basically to mimic TextMate, with some Eclipse-isms. It doesn't do code completion to the nines, but it does at least try to complete from the current buffer. It also has very extensible key stroke configurations and the ability to record/playback macros.
I'm assuming you be using Ruby for the web? Aptana IDE with the RADRails plugin would have to be the best choice.
I really like using Geany for ruby and rails work.
I wouldn't affirm an IDE is better than other. Everyone has its pros an cons.
When I'm lazy I'd use Netbeans because it's comprehensive. An overkill in computer resources, but usefull if you are learning.
I've had bad comments about Aptana... maybe some of you that recommend this may have to convince me otherwise.
GEdit + Rails plugin may be a good alternative. And VIM is awfully powerfull but the learning curve is steeper (but once you get the taste of it, productivity will increase for sure).
It all depends on what you want.
I personally use vim as an editor as the default ruby tools as the rest of my IDE.
If you are looking for a more "heavyweight" IDE look at Eclipse (http://rubyeclipse.sourceforge.net/) or netbeans (Google for link).
There are a number of in-the-middle options which behave differently and have different features. Google is your best best when it comes to these.
Also - please see Ruby and linux, preferred setup?
and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59968/best-editor-for-ruby
If I could close this question for being a dupe - I would.
komodo Edit is the best choice.
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I want to start learning HTML and AJAX using a Linux distribution.
Can anyone recommend a distribution that has these requirements:
Local Host Admin interface (like PHPmyAdmin)
IDE for Javascript... etc
There is no real best distro for web development.
All tools you need will run on any linux distro.
Pick something you have experience with.
If you don't have any experience I'd recommend one of the 'user friendly' distros like Ubuntu or SuSe.
First question - Why do you want to do this on Linux? You can do basic AJAX requests from any platform, simply drop in your JavaScript framework of choice (JQuery, Prototype, or even MooTools and you can be up and running on your existing development platform.
Get familiar with a decent editor, one that will provide basic syntax coloring for you. One tool you may want to look at is the Aptana web development IDE that is based on Eclipse. This will give you the capability to write and debug any AJAX work you do as well as provide you some documentation and access to other dynamic languages like PHP, Rails, Python as well as a basic HTML editor.
That should square you away more than enough for what you're looking to do.
I just setup my first linux hosting to do the same thing. I did a lot of looking around and was recommended by articles and friends to use Ubuntu. So I did and everything has been working just great.
I'm using slicehost They have lots of tutorials to get you going.
http://articles.slicehost.com/ubuntu-gutsy
I can't think of many distributions that won't do what you need. I'd suggest something that has a good package manager, and, works well on your hardware. There will be plenty of choice for your requirements with all the major distributions.
What are you currently using ?
Andrew
Ubuntu should get the job done but you might consider a slightly more server oriented distro. In my shop, we use CentOS 5 which is more of an enterprise-oriented distro.
It exists specialized distributions:
The best one for me: Noys
http://www.noysweb.net/
Other one is Excelixis:
http://excelixis.wordpress.com/excelixis/
Cheers
HTML and AJAx don't need to be on any particular distribution, Ubuntu makes it pretty easy to install all the required features. I like fedora personally.
Try http://www.eclipse.org/webtools and http://www.zend.com/phpide although screem http://www.screem.org/ may well do what you need if it is purely html, javascript and css
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Is there a good, native Mac tool to view Mercurial repositories, similar to gitnub for Git?
Try the newly released MacHg. It uses the native GUI toolkit for Mac and comes with its own bundled version of Mercurial.
There are many more screenshots available.
I know it's pretty old question, however just for sake of completeness, I think it is still worth to mention here the newest kid on the block called Murky.
I just released a new tool, SourceTree which is native Mac OS X and lets you work with both Mercurial and Git repositories in one application.
A few months back, Dustin Sallings wrote a fork of GitNub that uses Mercurial. It's Leopard-only, but lovely.
On Tiger, the "view" exension mentioned in the other comments works okay, as does hgview.
hg: unknown command 'view'
(Maybe I need to install something - but it's not native, nonetheless).
There is one "native" application out there, but it's not especially user-friendly. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that it's harder to use than the command line.
There was some talk a year or so ago about a version of SCPlugin, which puts badges on icons in the Finder that are under SVN control, and gives you a contextual menu (very much like TortoiseSVN on windows), but that seems to have collapsed.
I have been planning to create a mercurial "clone" of Versions (I asked them if they would consider doing a version of it for DVCS, and they said no).
You can use the one "built in", hg view. You'll need TCL installed though.
From the documentation:
The hgk Tcl script is a direct port of the gitk tool used with git. The hgk.py extension allows hgk to interact with mercurial in a git-like manner.
edit # Matthew: yeah, that's why I linked to the documentation that explains it. You need to enable it in your .hgrc (like the fetch command), and TCL --as mentioned.