Ask HN: Is RubyMine worth it?
Just wondering if RubyMine was worth the cost/getting to know the IDE in terms of building Rails apps? I downloaded the trial but ended up just using Sublime because it was easier.
What are the pro/cons of RM?
What are the pro/cons of RM?
I use Sublime when im mostly working on front end code, but i'll use RubyMine when im working on backend mainly because I get to use object inspectors, break points and step by step debugging.
Of course, if im just working on the front end of my web app, then I prefer Sublime as it has a much lighter footprint.
If you've ever coded in C# and used Visual Studio, then RubyMine will feel more comfortable when you really need to dig deep and debug something.
It's cheap enough, just get it, one day you'll be up to your elbows in spaghetti code and it will save you heaps of time, then you'll be happy you had it.
RubyMine has helpful things like auto-complete, cmd+click to see function/class code (works for things like locales and gems too), generators without going to the command line, and a console for autorun unit test results off the top of my head.
On the negative side its a memory hog and costs money (though they seems to have sales every once in a while so you could get it slightly cheaper).
Unfortunately, if you have a monolithic code base, you'll see the memory consumption climb and it will slow to a crawl pretty quickly. This was true in Visual Studio/C# and I've found it to be true with Ruby/Rails apps too.
Pro: - Code navigation is really quick (e.g jump to definition, inline view of implementation, including gems) - Debugging experience is great (e.g. setting breakpoints, stepping into and execution code within breakpoint context) - Git integration is very good (e.g. review your code side by side before pushing/sending for review) - Great support for running tests within the IDE, also supports having a rails console within the IDE - Navigating through projects and multiple files is really fast/efficient - Auto-completion, code inspection
All in all, I'd say it's really worth it if you're the type of person that enjoys using productivity tools. As others mentioned, it's somehow similar to using VisualStudio with C#.