Re: [Rails] Re: OT: buying a Mac computer

2014-02-25 Thread Yin Wang
hree year old is reasonable, > but I wouldn't pay any more than that. If you don’t have budget for a new > one, and you can’t find an used one, just keep using your Linux box. It > might not be as comfortable but wouldn’t prevent you from doing anything. > > Lei > > O

[Rails] Re: OT: buying a Mac computer

2014-02-25 Thread Yin Wang
I would suggest a new PC instead of an old Mac if the prices are similar. Macs are good looking but not really that good in terms of reliability. My new macbook pro 13" retina display and Haswell processor crashes badly. Everybody was affected for late 2013 model. Apple released a firmware fix

[Rails] Re: Best IDEs for Ruby on Rails

2014-02-24 Thread Yin Wang
We are developing tools for ruby and rails and released a plugin for sublime for searching symbols: https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-sublime It's based on a global index we are building for open source ruby code so that you can accurately search for examples of a particular class, m

[Rails] Re: Best IDEs for Ruby on Rails

2014-02-24 Thread Yin Wang
That's true. I used RubyMine to develop the Ruby part in my project and it was much more helpful than editors and command line. I developed program analysis tools for languages, so I know how much more advanced are IDEs compared to text editors. They are qualitatively different. JetBrains does