Bioruby Resources

As a member of the Bioruby mailing list, my first post was where is the Bioruby documentation?

Why it is that Bioruby is not well documented? This question pops up so often in the mailing list that I am going to list a couple of resources here:

The best place to get started is at the Bioruby new website. For some reason the other website is still active.

An excellent tutorial written by Katayama Toshiaki among others is available here. Sample scripts on common tasks for sequence manipulations can be accessed from here.

Some Bioruby presentations can be downloaded from here as well.

The following blogs are dedicated in a way to Bioruby and bioinformatics
http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/

http://saaientist.blogspot.com/

http://bioinforuby.blogspot.com/

http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/

http://bioruby.g.hatena.ne.jp/nakao_mitsuteru/

If you have a specific question post it on the mailing list. And you may have an opportunity to have your question or problem solved by the experts!

Best Open Source IDE for rails

The best open source IDE for developing ruby and rails programs in my opinion is the netbeans IDE version 6 and the upcoming version 6.1. It has numerous support features which you can view at the netbeans website
The next IDE I would vote for is the Aptana studio. This comes at a cost for additional features but they have really revamped the radrails plugin to a really cool IDE which you can also plug in to your Eclipse.

There are a number of other commercial IDE for ruby and rails.