+1 for RubyMine. Everything is at your fingertips, and the debugging is great. I keep discovering new features that speed up development.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:20 PM, soldier.coder <geekprogrammer...@googlemail.com> wrote: > First: Free your mind from the shackle that comes from false belief > that IDE's are necessary for superior productivity. IDE's are great > for compiledh languages like C or C++ as they can spot syntax errors > that will cause your program to not compile. Instead, embrace > Behavior Driven Development, write tests for code you haven't written > yet, tests for code you have written, consider how to refactor the > code that results. Move faster by going slower! Learn to wield your > editor like a samurai's sword -- an extension of yourself. > > From Agile Web Development with Rails: > "It may surprise you to know that most Rails [and Ruby] developers > don't use fully fledged IDE's for Ruby or Rails (although some of the > environments come close). Indeed many Rails developers use plain old > editors. And it turns out that this isn't as much of a problem as you > might think. With other less expressive languages, programmers rely > on IDEs to do much of the grunt work for them, because IDE's do code > generation, assist with navigation, and compile incrementally to give > early warning of errors. > With Ruby, however, much of this support just isn't necessary. Editors > such as Textmate and BBEdit [or E for Windows, or VIM for Linux] give > you 90 percent of what you'd get from and IDE but are far lighter > weight. Just about the only useful IDE facility that's missing is > refactoring support." > > > SC > > On Feb 28, 9:46 am, nada <nn.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a novice in Ruby , I want to ask what is the best IDEs to use Ruby >> for beginners ? >> >> Is eclipse a good choice ? >> >> any idea? >> >> Thanks a lot! >> Nada > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
