Up to this point, the best IDE’s for Ruby and/or Rails development were largely existing platforms with Ruby-based plugins.
Nothing is wrong with that, but if you’ve ever used an IDE that is built around a particular language – such as Visual Studio – you begin to take for granted some of the features that native IDE’s can offer.
JetBrains of Resharper fame have just released an update to RubyMine – a full-on Ruby IDE.
RubyMine has a lot of functionality that we’ve come to expect out of our more enterprise-level IDE’s…
- Code completion
- Automatic refactoring
- Unit testing assistance
- Built in Ruby and Rails debugger
- A JavaScript debugger
- Shortcut schemes based on TextMate, Emacs, Eclipse, and vi
- Support for LESS and SASS CSS utilities
- Support for source control systems such as Git and Mercurial
- …and a lot more
Incredible.
Any Ruby developers out there have some thoughts on this?
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