Doh, shouldn't send emails so soon. I went back through my WWDC 2008 videos and there was only one rails session (session 426 creating ruby on rails applications for safari on iphone), and yes, the guy exclusively used TextMate.
cheers, jane On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Jane Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > There haven't been THAT many updates to textmate in the past year or > two. Everyone's been waiting on TextMate 2.0, but at this point it may > as well be vapourware. > > As for alternative editors, sadly a lot of core Rails devs use > TextMate, so it's pretty much the de facto one on OS X. However, I'm > not sure what you find so not "lightweight" about xcode or radrails? > There's also bbedit if you're interested. > > Speaking of WWDC, I have attended one of the rails sessions and the > presenter was using TextMate for demos, and not xcode. I'm not sure > you really want to use xcode for rails dev, or anything but > Cocoa/Carbon dev, it's sort of awkward. > > cheers, > jane > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Mitchell Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yeah, I did consider Xcode, I know they had some talks at WWDC 08 about ruby >> and rails dev with Xcode, but again Xcode isn't exactly light weight. > -- cheers, jane
