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There's nothing silly about a developer sharing his preferred development configuration. Also, you glossed over the fact that he's not installing Xcode so that

There's nothing silly about a developer sharing his preferred development configuration. Also, you glossed over the fact that he's not installing Xcode so that he can use its IDE; rather, he's installing to get LLVM/GCC easily. He makes it clear that ZSH is his preference and that he recommends it. The vast majority of developers looking for a guide to set up their machine for Ruby development will be Rails developers. Denying that is silly.

mzatko 15y ago
You're right, there's nothing bad on sharing someone's preferred config. Calling that "modern ruby development" is silly.
- diminish 15y ago
  i m moved to gedit and redcar from netbeans on ubuntu for any ruby development. on ubuntu does anyone have any recommendations?
  - amirhhz 15y ago
    Try RubyMine from JetBrains, a very slick product, and worth paying for (I don't pay for much but JetBrains IDEs I make an exception for). In true HN tradition, I must urge you to try Vim. I found this very helpful when I first start: http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/ http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressiv...
    - hello_moto 15y ago
      Sometime I don't understand people that use Vim for everything. I used Vim casually so I'm not an expert. I understand that it'll take a while to master it. But compare to netbeans where you can navigate Ruby code quite fast (shortcut to method implementation, class implementation, project browse, auto-suggest, etc), why would I want to use Vim when I have to find the proper plugins (not just one, but a few) before I can be productive (assuming they can do what I mentioned above).
      - drfugly 15y ago
        As a netbeans user but vim fanatic. I really like netbeans for project management, but vim is awesome for just manipulating text tons faster than you can with netbeans. Try the jVi plugin for netbeans to get that text editing power of vim with the project management features of netbeans.
        hello_moto 15y ago
        In my line of duty, most of the time spent in reading code, not writing code. Even when we were building version 1.0 of the software, there aren't too many text editing as opposed to navigating the code tree. Isn't dynamic/scripting languages like Ruby and Python produced way less code than Java? (Hence, less typing again). So this is why I don't quite get the group of people that swear by vim.
      - amirhhz 15y ago
        I don't use it for everything, hence my JetBrains recommendation. I use PyCharm a lot, too, for example, and Android dev is a hassle without Eclipse. The portability of Vim-the-application and thus the portability of the skills to use it are a big reason why I put in the time to learn it (same applies for Emacs). I can just as comfortably program locally, on a remote server or on a friend's machine.
      - bphogan 15y ago
        I understand people who use VIm for everything. I've recently come ack to it after a few years away. It's nice to have an editor you know how to be productive in when you start using a new tech. In an average workday I'll touch ASP, JavaScript, Sass, CoffeeScript, PHP, and Ruby code. When I use VIm, I can use all of the shortcuts and things I've learned over the years to manipulate text. I know how to manage projects, find files, etc. That's a huge advantage. Having to learn Eclipse to do Java or Visual Studio to do C# adds complexity cos you have to learn the tool and the language. So yea, I totally get it. This goes for TextMate or Emacs too.
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  - pdelgallego 15y ago
    Try emacs or vim. I am die hard emacs user

mzatko 15y ago

You're right, there's nothing bad on sharing someone's preferred config. Calling that "modern ruby development" is silly.

diminish 15y ago
i m moved to gedit and redcar from netbeans on ubuntu for any ruby development. on ubuntu does anyone have any recommendations?
- amirhhz 15y ago
  Try RubyMine from JetBrains, a very slick product, and worth paying for (I don't pay for much but JetBrains IDEs I make an exception for). In true HN tradition, I must urge you to try Vim. I found this very helpful when I first start: http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/ http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressiv...
  - hello_moto 15y ago
    Sometime I don't understand people that use Vim for everything. I used Vim casually so I'm not an expert. I understand that it'll take a while to master it. But compare to netbeans where you can navigate Ruby code quite fast (shortcut to method implementation, class implementation, project browse, auto-suggest, etc), why would I want to use Vim when I have to find the proper plugins (not just one, but a few) before I can be productive (assuming they can do what I mentioned above).
    - drfugly 15y ago
      As a netbeans user but vim fanatic. I really like netbeans for project management, but vim is awesome for just manipulating text tons faster than you can with netbeans. Try the jVi plugin for netbeans to get that text editing power of vim with the project management features of netbeans.
      - hello_moto 15y ago
        In my line of duty, most of the time spent in reading code, not writing code. Even when we were building version 1.0 of the software, there aren't too many text editing as opposed to navigating the code tree. Isn't dynamic/scripting languages like Ruby and Python produced way less code than Java? (Hence, less typing again). So this is why I don't quite get the group of people that swear by vim.
    - amirhhz 15y ago
      I don't use it for everything, hence my JetBrains recommendation. I use PyCharm a lot, too, for example, and Android dev is a hassle without Eclipse. The portability of Vim-the-application and thus the portability of the skills to use it are a big reason why I put in the time to learn it (same applies for Emacs). I can just as comfortably program locally, on a remote server or on a friend's machine.
    - bphogan 15y ago
      I understand people who use VIm for everything. I've recently come ack to it after a few years away. It's nice to have an editor you know how to be productive in when you start using a new tech. In an average workday I'll touch ASP, JavaScript, Sass, CoffeeScript, PHP, and Ruby code. When I use VIm, I can use all of the shortcuts and things I've learned over the years to manipulate text. I know how to manage projects, find files, etc. That's a huge advantage. Having to learn Eclipse to do Java or Visual Studio to do C# adds complexity cos you have to learn the tool and the language. So yea, I totally get it. This goes for TextMate or Emacs too.
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- pdelgallego 15y ago
  Try emacs or vim. I am die hard emacs user