I’ve been doing a lot of ruby on rails work lately, and in absence of TextMate on my linux laptop I was searching for something good to use. Eclipse with RadRails is okay, but sometimes it can be a heavy weight (and random long startup times and random “initializing java tooling” bogs me down). So I tried just revisiting my roots and using vim, which worked well enough, but felt uncomfortable in the whole dev cycle.
SO I searched the net and found an article on how to Pimp Gedit. Coupled with MultiTerminal, rails development has been a breeze.
Oh… and rspec and cucumber ran with autotest rocks!
[...] Gedit can be as lame as notepad at first glance, but don’t be easily fooled, you just need to configure it a little and install a few plugins. See my earlier blog post on how to Pimp My Gedit. [...]