Best IDEs for Ruby on Rails

All the replies are very helpful. Thanks for sharing.

http://www.cryptextechnologies.com/

One Vim to rule them all

There is a world behind Vim+plugins

Here my plugin list v-ide

However Vim has a long learning curve, so if you do not have time Rubymine may be the solution

Thanks,

Mauro

My RubyMine currently has four projects open for several days and is sitting at around 600MB RAM (160MB compressed) according to Activity Monitor. In 2015, I wouldn’t consider that “heavy” (my browsers are using far more). It’s a very responsive app, in my experience. It’s full of well thought out and well implemented features like a UI to select which files to check in, easy to review diffs, refactoring, completion, etc. Totally worth the small outlay considering the time it saves me. https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/

Paul, vi power user since 1992 (later vim)

+1 for RubyMine. It’s an excellent, affordable ($50 for a personal license) IDE. I use scripts a lot, but for code editing and debugging it’s a great tool.

I’m in the vim camp, and while that vim loadout looks very impressive, I find you don’t need too much, if that is not your style.

Ones I would absolutely get for rails though: rails.vim ( rails commands ), fugitive.vim( git commands ), matchit.vim ( better bounds / fold matching ), and FastFolds ( deals with some syntax folding issues re: speed due to new regex engine ).

Learning curve isn’t gentle, but I found myself up to speed in ~2weeks.