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Komodo 4
I use Komodo IDE at work and at home I would always use Rad Rails. That was the case until I started running 64bit suse. Rad Rails will not work for me, and it is not worth my effort to figure it out. Also Komodo just released 4.0!

I was sad at first because I did not see a price for a personal edition. So I am just the demo version of 4.0 and I found they have a free version which they call Komodo Edit. Found here ! I have yet to install the free version but if its close enough to the pay version I am set.

There is a big list some where of the features for komodo but there are only a few things that draw me to this product. Number 1 with out a doubt is the toolbox. I store bits of repeatable code and make them hot keys. This makes writing unit test, change logs, formatted rdocs comments so easy. I have also created a package for the tool box that includes the common RoR actions like rad rails has. That can be downloaded from here. Number 2 is the tab complete. In 4.0 you have to turn on the tab complete because its bound with different keys. I think they did a good job at guessing which word I want. They have an open that strips the whitspaces at the end of lines which includes those killer windows ^M's.

It is missing a few things that rad rails has. One is the hot key to take you from the controller to the view and back again. The auto formatting for indentation is very nice because sometimes i get out of control.