I’ve been trying to do a small e-commerce website using Ruby on Rails recently. I’ve being looking for a good IDE for RAILS that runs under windows. Everybody talks about textmate on apple, unfortunately (still) being a PC user and still stuck with windows (since adobe is not planning to release CS3 for Linux).

I’ve been evaluating almost every editor available. I’ve tried Aptana studio RadRails yet it seems to be too heavy if you are just a simple RAILS developer with a low end system, otherwise its a feature rich, cross-platform and actively developed.

I came across this cool program named RoRED. Light weight and easy to use. Sure may have lot of things to improve but with its code completing macros RoRED gets the job done well for me (so far). It’s not Open Source (but as of today it’s free) yet worth a look if you are looking for a lightweight and good IDE for RAILS.