Gedit is the default text editor in gnome, which is an impressive editor that I use to do all of my rails development, but its missing some small features like .erb highlighting etc... that where holding it back from being a full blown Rails IDE.

I came across a repo on github that provided all the features required to make gedit a proper IDE.

http://github.com/mig/gedit-rails

When I first came across it it was outdated (still used rhtml in hotkeys etc...) so naturally I forked it and updated it.

First off I got rid of the install.sh and replaced it with a Rakefile so that it "conforms" to a more ruby like approach.

After an issue was raised on the parent for the rhtml issue I corrected it and a few other things in the hotkeys. Another git user forked the parent and created an unistall.sh, which although its nice isn't really inline with the way things in ruby tend to work, so I altered my Rakefile to include the task for uninstalling as well.

All but the Uninstall task have been pulled back into the parent repo so please use that one instead of my fork (until I add any new features to my fork).

Ive not had any problems with gedit-rails on a day to day basis, although other than the extra highlighting and the syntax snippets I don't really use it, I find having to pause to try and remember the keyboard shortcuts slows me down.

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