Comments on: Rubymine – A Love Story

By: Sharron Clemons

Sharron Clemons — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:19:03 +0000

I’ve been using it again, and I think I’m pretty sold. I agree that Cmd-B is super key. The other thing I like is that if you do something like generate a migration, the filename of the migration is a link, and thus opens it up. There are a lot of little things that are seeming to add up to be an overall win. I still need to get a few things more dialed in; and some other things are not ideal (GitX is overall better, but I’ve been using the Changes tab and Cmd-D for diffs, and it’s mostly working out). Next step is to get into their forums and start learning more, seeing how to fix/alter things that annoy me, etc.

By: thomas

thomas — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:27:41 +0000

can you provide a bigger screenshot? 690×220 is ‘kinda’ tiny. pretty please.

By: Alex Chaffee

Alex Chaffee — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:44:10 +0000

Ahem. See http://pivotallabs.com/users/alex/blog/articles/1201-textmate-the-last-straw for why.

By: Alex Chaffee

Alex Chaffee — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:43:40 +0000

I’ve just given up on TextMate in favor of RubyMine too. See
for why.

By: BJ Clark

BJ Clark — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:16:39 +0000

Yeah, I love the migration thing. Generate a migration, click on the file, edit it, then hit cmd-r and it gives you the db:migrate rake task, which it will run and then you can go about your business. Never have to change context or focus or anything.

By: Chris Bailey

Chris Bailey — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:14:17 +0000

By: BJ Clark

BJ Clark — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:24:11 +0000

I’ll admit, Rubymine’s git stuff is still mostly a mystery to me. I’m also pretty careful about reading code before making the commit, and I do this in GitX. But really, it’s rare enough that it doesn’t bother me to leave Rubymine. I’ve already broken the development flow to make the commit itself.

I think Rubymine does a great job at the “1 window” concept.

By: BJ Clark

BJ Clark — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:22:03 +0000

Yeah, I mean, that’s the thing. I’m sure you could make any IDE work this well for you if you put in the time. Rubymine doesn’t do anything so bad that I can’t use it (Textmate, however, does).

By: Michael Klett

Michael Klett — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:20:14 +0000

I’ll always regret that I didn’t force you to sit down and show me how you use RubyMine while I watched. As it stands now, I’m still reluctant to put in the time to make myself productive in it. My 30-day trial expired ages ago…

By: Chris Bailey

Chris Bailey — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:58:05 +0000

Thanks BJ! I’ve made the tabs change, and am trying RubyMine out again (just spent a while with RadRails 3, which has some promise as well, but has a couple things preventing me from switching to it yet (these should be resolved by the time they go to a beta level, but at this super early pre-release stage it’s not quite baked enough).

I agree on the dual monitors. One thing for me is that while I have the best apps for the job in TextMate (currently), iTerm, and so on, one reason I’m trying all these is I want kind of one screen-full of stuff, so windows don’t overlap and everything is just “right there”. I think the IDE’s have potential to be this solution, but some of the shortcomings in tools (their git diff vs. GitX – something I rely very heavily on for reviewing all code before I commit it), etc. may not overcome that.