Ruby Development Toolkit for Eclipse IDE | RDT

By | June 14

I’ve been looking into Ruby and Rails recently since I deployed Redmine at my company to support our software development projects. For those who don’t know Redmine, this is a great piece of open-source software, offering a complete web collaborative solution for project management including source control, wiki, issues tracking, ldap authentication…

Today, I just found out there is a Ruby Development Toolkit (RDT) plugin for my favourite IDE… Eclipse! Sweet! The toolkit is downloadable via Eclipse Software Update, the remote site URL is:

Features supported are syntax highlighting, on the fly syntax check, graphical outline, Test::Unit view/runner, Ruby application launching, content assist, source formatter, Ruby debugging, Type Hierarchy view, Ruby specific Search, Refactoring, and much, much more…