Aptana Studio’s support for Ruby on Rails development differs from other popular IDEs in several ways:
1. Built-in Rails perspective: Aptana provides a dedicated Rails perspective, streamlining the workflow and making it easier to navigate between models, views, and controllers.
2. Integrated terminal: The built-in terminal allows running Rails commands without switching windows, improving efficiency.
3. Code assistance: Aptana offers code completion, syntax highlighting, and error checking specifically tailored for Rails, enhancing productivity.
4. Git integration: Aptana has robust Git support, simplifying version control tasks within the IDE.
5. Deployment tools: Aptana includes deployment wizards for various hosting platforms, facilitating application deployment.
These features have positively impacted my work on Rails projects by increasing efficiency, reducing context-switching, and providing valuable coding assistance.