Yes, so lately I have been developing using the Ruby on Rails framework a lot. To my irony there ain't much choice nor there exist any really really good IDE or editor for Rails on Ubuntu(or rather Linux in general). You could use VIM or Emacs but for some reason that I cant understand I choose not to use them.
My favorite text editor on ubuntu was Gedit. Although by default you don't get a hell lot of features in it but the best I liked was tabbed browsing. I guess thats a common thing in most Linux GUI based applications. Ok so this is what your Gedit would look like:
Hmm.. so lets quickly start the process of changing Gedit into something close to textmate:
1) Lets quickly download Jose's Gedit bundle.
2) Edit the mime types file and add the below mentioned lines
sudo nano /etc/mime.types
text/x-ruby-source rhtml html.erb
text/x-eruby rjs
text/x-yaml yml
3) Update the new extensions mime types
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
4) Copy the x-rhtml to the directory
/usr/share/mime/packages
sudo cp gmate2/mime/x-rhtml.xml /usr/share/mime/packages
5) Copy extensions ruby.lang, rhtml.lang and rjs.lang the directory /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs
sudo cp gmate2/langs/*.lang /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs
6)
Update plugins
cp -R gmate2/plugins/* ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/
7)
Copy the snippets (cuts)
cp -R gmate2/snippets/* ~/.gnome2/gedit/snippets/
8) Copy the colors
cp gmate2/styles/Rubycius.xml ~/.gnome2/gedit/styles/
9)
Remove a directory of your gnome settings
rm -Rf /tmp/gconfd-warlock
where warlock is your username.
10)
Open the Gedit and on the menu: Edit> Preferences> Plugins tab and:- Gemini (May auto complete parentheses, quotation marks, brackets, etc.)
- Snippets
- Snap Open (the key combination of CTRL + ALT + O opens a dialog where you can find the files you want)
11) Choose the theme "Rubycius" on the menu: Edit> Preferences tab "Fonts and Colors"12) Finally, if you want in the menu: Edit> Preferences tab "View" can: Show line numbers, and current line Highlight Show right margin.
If for some reason the formating dont appear then quickly go to the terminal and hit
sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime
If everything is done right you should get this sort of output(text highlighting) for your files you open:
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