> Just wanted to get a little inspiration from all of your Rails devs out
> there. Not meaning to spur out a flamewar, but just interested in getting to
> know your favourite tools for Rails development whilst behind the keyboard.
> Supposedly a lot of you guys are using the magic potion, the Mac OS X +
> Textmate combination, but you may also use something different? Have you got
> a nice shell tool or one liner that you absolutely can't live without? Then
> tell us about it. :)

Just happened across a RORO mailing list post from 3 years ago in my
archives (think we were RoR Aus back then) where Lachie started a
"Friday Arvo Frivolity" thread about what we use... was thinking about
resurrecting it, but you beat me to it! Having said that, I don't use
anything too out of the ordinary. I did a "must update my blog with
something" post about this semi-recently too:
http://davidbolton.net/blog/2009/10/my-tools-of-the-trade/

My answers are more about my dev environment than deployment targets.

> ... Shell?

zsh. Used Fish for a long time, but not quite ubiquitous enough.

> ... Text editor? And text editor macros?

vim (with nerdtree, nerdcommenter, a snippets plugin, rails plugin,
fuzzyfinder). Man, I wish vim scripting wasn't such a mess though.

> ... Operating system and extensions?

OS X or Ubuntu -- my real sweet spot was an Ubuntu setup with an
excellent tiling window manager (I think it was "awesome" tiling
manager). So productive.

> ... Deployment database?

Postgres

Other things I can't do without for development work:

Balsamiq Mockups is super
Dropbox
SizeUp (closest thing to a tiling window manager in OS X)
VMWare Fusion

Wow, just realised how boring my setup is.  Anyway, keen to see what
other people are using these days.

D

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