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Choosing a text editor on macOS for Rails development

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Choosing a text editor on macOS for Rails development

- [Instructor] In this movie, I want to talk about choosing a text editor that you can use for your Ruby on Rails development. Some of you will already have a favorite text editor that you use for your current development, and if so, that's fine, you can go ahead and keep using that, but there will also be some of you who may be coming to this for the first time, and might like a little extra guidance about what kind of text editor to choose. The first thing is, you don't want to use a word processor. It has to actually be a text editor or a code editor, something that works with just plain text without formatting. There are a few properties that you want to look for that are essential in a text editor. The first is you want to have code coloring and syntax highlighting, that is different parts of the language on the screen are going to be colored different ways, and that's going to allow you to quickly see and understand…

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