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Ruby and a good editor?!
So I found Ruby a fun language but is there a good free IDE for it? I know from what I have experienced people write code in notepad++ or vi. I've been writing ruby in vi as well but just wanted to know if people found anything good out there and tried it out. 
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check out plugins that people have written for ruby on vim. i'm sure theres a vimrc floating around taht can help you.
Kate?
http://www.aptana.com/products/radrails
I think there is an Eclipse plugin as well.
Never used either myself.
I just recently switched from RubyMine (memory hog java) to Sublime Text (http://www.sublimetext.com/). It is fantastic, has tons of plugins that can help with rails and just plain and simple. Vim for me was a little too much.
Check it out.
for windows there is notepad++ that's pretty cool.
@BoGs People around me love RubyMine because of all the IDE stuff it can do. Didn't realize it was a memory hog :P I will try sublimetext although I don't really like to pay for the license. Call me cheap but hey I think there should be good free ones out there.
Notepad++ and vi are great but I just got tired of it.
No need to pay for Sublime. It will simply run via 'unregistered' mode... (fully functional, just get an alert to pay every 10 saves)
emacs ^_^
"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use."
Probably just like WinRAR?
WinRAR? Never heard of it. 7-zip is free :-)