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We use rubymine but I never have been comfortable using it as my #1 developer tool. Part of the problem may be that I am running it in a linux VM (albeit on a
by harshaw 15y ago
We use rubymine but I never have been comfortable using it as my #1 developer tool. Part of the problem may be that I am running it in a linux VM (albeit on a box with tons of memory). Rubymine seems very slow and uses a ton of memory (Java??). Rubymine has a ton of features and I use it when I need a good visual tool (e.g: source control, source exploration)
I tried using it more aggressively but I keep falling back to emacs / rails console / rails db / grep. At the end of the day RM just feels too sluggish.
- codenerdz 15y agoWhy are you using a cross-platform tool in a VM?
- harshaw 15y agoyeah, I guess you could mount your source tree into windows and use RM in windows, but then all of the interesting features like rails integration wouldn't likely work - and I have no interest in running rails on windows since that isn't the deployment environment.
- codenerdz 15y agoHonestly im running rubymine on mac since it seems as a better web development tool than a windows machine, but considering that all you do with "deploying" rails apps in development mode is reload a browser and that Rubymine supports remote debugging quite well, I dont see why you wouldnt be able to edit your source tree in a mounted drive while running your server in the VM. This way you dont have to deal with memory/hd swap implications of running a fairly memory hungry app inside a memory hungry virtualization layer.