I use Vim which definitely has a learning curve. The advantage of Vim is it's available in most unix environments and it's cheap. If you're ever on a prod serv

I use Vim which definitely has a learning curve. The advantage of Vim is it's available in most unix environments and it's cheap. If you're ever on a prod server and having to hack some code (obviously I don't do this) then your Vim skills will help, it's usually pre-installed or at least Vi will be there. The thing with rails is you don't need an awful lot of help from the IDE. The cycle is usually... 1. Edit some code 2. Refresh the browser, look at the results. 3. goto 1. Unit tests and the console I run from the command line.