As part of a general quest to slim down my programming environment (driven largely by the purchase of a Samsung NC-10 netbook and a love of programming on trains), I’ve switched to gedit as my main editor. It’s been hugely enjoyable to code in a lightweight environment – and the gedit-mate git repo in combination with apt-get install gedit-plugins makes it easy to set up a decent Ruby environment.
The only small problem I’ve had with the gedit-mate installer was that syntax highlighting wasn’t working for me out of the box. To fix it, I’ve forked the github repo and pushed a commit that installs the ruby_on_rails.lang file so that everything works properly on Ubuntu 9.04.
