Best Ruby I.D.E?

Just started with Ruby on Rails ( Rails 3)  and I'm trying to figure out the best I.D.E.  Here's what I've found so far:

Eclipse / DLTK - while researching this on the web I came across a number of broken links which was a bad sign and when I did get it installed I wasn't able to debug using it.  Ater some more web searches I came across a few posts that said basically the Ruby plug-in had run out of steam and was not being pursued.

 

JetBrains/RubyMine - this installed and works, so far the *looks* like the best bet.  The instant database diagramming looks really cool, do other I.D.E.s support this?

 

Ecliplse/Aptana - just got this installed, Will try debugging with it soon.

 

Does anyone have recommendations for their favorite I.D.E.?  I don't need anythgin too fancy, as long as I can set a breakpoint and view variables and the call stack I'm happy.  And it helps if its a free product.'

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Permalink Reply by Michael Levin on December 5, 2012 at 10:07am

Kevin, What have you found out so far with Eclipse/Aptana and JetBrains/RubyMine? Have you experimented with any other IDE's? 

Permalink Reply by Kevin Neelands on December 5, 2012 at 4:28pm

With Eclipse/Aptana I *think* I got installed, but the online references that showed how to start a debugging session accessed menu options that were not present so I was unable to use it.  So far RubyMine looks the best, it also checks the syntax of of .html.erb ( Embedded RuBy ) files and generates a diagram of your DB tables, highlighting any relationships that look hinky.  Worth noting RubyMine costs money, while the  others I've looked at are open source and frankly I think the developers for the free plugins ran out of steam.  The profit motive at work.

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