Well, firstly let's be clear I'm not trying to sell RubyMine as my ideal IDE. I've paid for it, but I'm sometimes quite equivocal about whether it's much better than a terminal/editor combination. (Mind you, on the days I've needed to use the debugger I've been very glad to have it. But I'm only starting out with Rails and that hasn't happened very often yet).
But I haven't tried all the IDE options available, and there are features that are standard for other languages and environments that would be just as valuable to Ruby/Rails. I think it's daft to assert that Rails devs, just because they use Rails, can't benefit from an IDE. Very little of the duplicated and > generated boilerplate that IDEs are so good at maintaining is necessary > in Rails, so IDEs have no real advantage that I can think of, and in my > experience they slow everything down. > I agree about the code generation, but I'm not sure where you think IDEs slow you down so much. A 20 - 30 second load time may not be fun but you only have to sit through it once a day,. > Anything my machine can > > do > > is something I don't have to. Scrolling through an RDoc page for the > > 100th > > time is a waste of my time if my IDE can remind me of what I'm looking > > for > > immediately. > > How does your IDE help with that? > Auto-completion and context-sensitive help and documentation; for me two of the most valuable tools for working with a large framework without having to memorise APIs > > > And I most especially want as much debugging help as > > possible. > > How does your IDE help with that? > By actually having a debugger! Mark -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
