Mac-like Rails Development on Windows 4
On his blog, Ben Kittrell shares a recipe for creating a "Mac-esque" Rails development environment in Windows, at the heart of which is the e text editor, a project that we've been following for some time now. Not too shabby.
Looks really cool - But for some reason I couldn't muster it up inside of me to go back to Windows, after feeling the 'greener' side I am pretty convinced I am staying here. Heck, I just got ordered a Mac Book Pro, so I can program portable-style now.
It just feels 'icky' in Windows.
Besides, QuickSilver is an amazing application and there is nothing like it on Windows. I would stay on OS X simply for that program.
@Fischer: While it pales in comparison, Launchy (http://launchy.net) is a great simplistic launcher that learns your preferences as you go much as the launcher facility of Quicksilver. My Windows setups are incomplete without Launchy and RocketDock (http://rocketdock.com) which is a mimic of Mac dock features, including bouncing icons, minimize-to-dock functionality, and more.
@All: Check out jEdit, (http://jedit.org) a great editor on all major platforms! It can do tabby snippet templates a la TextMate, can learn words with the TextAutocomplete plugin (a la TextMate's Esc key word-completion functionality), Ruby parser, Ruby/Rails RDoc sidebar with auto-lookup as you type, and many more great things. For free. Much lighter weight than, say, Eclipse. (I'm a fan of all three editors/IDEs mentioned in my comment)
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