I'm finding RubyMine to be great for rails webapp development. Hopping through a project to method or class or migration definitions, the "view model dependency

I'm finding RubyMine to be great for rails webapp development. Hopping through a project to method or class or migration definitions, the "view model dependency diagram", and good git integration make for a pretty nice IDE. The main good thing about vi is that it's ubiquitous. You really should know how to use it, at least cursorily. You can certainly use emacs over ssh (and you know about ssh's X11 forwarding, which let's you run a remote pointy-clicky editor rendered locally?). Depending on your network and the files you're playing with, sshfs might be a relevant tool to view the files "locally". If the files are really big, man the "split" command.