# IDE for contributing to plugins and Logstash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ide-for-contributing-to-plugins-and-logstash/117330
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 27, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ide-for-contributing-to-plugins-and-logstash/117330 "2018-01-27T20:36:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@AbdulHaseebHussain](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AbdulHaseebHussain)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ide-for-contributing-to-plugins-and-logstash/117330/1 "2018-01-27T20:36:59Z")
I have previously contributed to some Ruby only Plugins, I used Sublime Text Editor for these, now I would like to contribute to Logstash and some of the plugins that are mixture of Java and Ruby. When I try to open the gradle projects for these projects within more heavyweight IDE's such as Eclipse or Intellij I get errors and issues with building or opening the project.
What IDE's do you guys use and what process do you use to build and test the projects that are a mixture of Java and Ruby?
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### Author:  [@guyboertje](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/guyboertje)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ide-for-contributing-to-plugins-and-logstash/117330/2 "2018-01-29T15:31:53Z")
We use IntelliJ IDEA mostly. Most of them are gradle based these days.
I sometimes use SublimeText 3 to view or make small edits to non-Java files.
[https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/gradle.html#gradle\_import](https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/gradle.html#gradle_import)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ide-for-contributing-to-plugins-and-logstash/117330/3 "2018-02-26T15:32:01Z")
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