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Use an IDE. I don't mean to trivialise a very real and hard problem, but the world being what it is, cut yourself a break here and let an IDE do the heavy lift

Use an IDE. I don't mean to trivialise a very real and hard problem, but the world being what it is, cut yourself a break here and let an IDE do the heavy lifting of allowing you to navigate and help understand a code base. You'll NEVER be able to guarantee all APIs you'll ever work with are adequately documented. That path leads to madness!

asdasf 13y ago
What IDE would you recommend for a ruby code base?
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- CraigJPerry 13y ago
  Jetbrains Ruby mine. E.g. > Guys, I don’t have the FAINTEST FUCKING > IDEA why that string is being returned. > I don’t even know if the return value > for destroy is used at all, in which > case the last line is meaningless. One way could be find usages: http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/webhelp/finding-usages-in-project.html http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/webhelp/finding-usages-in-proj...
edwinnathaniel 13y ago
Most of Java OSS projects out there have excellent documentation (albeit some are only at the JavaDocs level but not overall/high-overview type). I'm very thankful for the community that pushes this type of mentality (good documentation). Having said that, yes, IDE. Specifically: modern IDE. I noticed that Sublime is somewhat sits in-between a Text-Editor and an IDE. I've never used Sublime that heavy yet so I can't vouch for it. But I can definitely vouch for IntellIJ (and its family: RubyMine, PyCharm, WebStorm).
fit2rule 13y ago
I beg to differ. Cscope, vim, make .. gcc. These are all the things you need to navigate a great codebase with plenty of online documentation. The 100% source-onboard setup, wherein you do actually have sources to every single thing, means .. if you're sane .. documentation problems don't get in your way of reading the code.
- edwinnathaniel 13y ago
  The C/C++ devs at where I work decided to move to Eclipse last year and they have been very happy ever since. They work with large C++ codebase and Linux C kernel.

asdasf 13y ago

What IDE would you recommend for a ruby code base?

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CraigJPerry 13y ago
Jetbrains Ruby mine. E.g. > Guys, I don’t have the FAINTEST FUCKING > IDEA why that string is being returned. > I don’t even know if the return value > for destroy is used at all, in which > case the last line is meaningless. One way could be find usages: http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/webhelp/finding-usages-in-project.html http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/webhelp/finding-usages-in-proj...

edwinnathaniel 13y ago

Most of Java OSS projects out there have excellent documentation (albeit some are only at the JavaDocs level but not overall/high-overview type). I'm very thankful for the community that pushes this type of mentality (good documentation). Having said that, yes, IDE. Specifically: modern IDE. I noticed that Sublime is somewhat sits in-between a Text-Editor and an IDE. I've never used Sublime that heavy yet so I can't vouch for it. But I can definitely vouch for IntellIJ (and its family: RubyMine, PyCharm, WebStorm).

fit2rule 13y ago

I beg to differ. Cscope, vim, make .. gcc. These are all the things you need to navigate a great codebase with plenty of online documentation. The 100% source-onboard setup, wherein you do actually have sources to every single thing, means .. if you're sane .. documentation problems don't get in your way of reading the code.

edwinnathaniel 13y ago
The C/C++ devs at where I work decided to move to Eclipse last year and they have been very happy ever since. They work with large C++ codebase and Linux C kernel.