RubyMine Review
In my endless pursuit of more productivity, I decided to give the latest RubyMine IDE one more chance. I’ll make this review nice and concise by listing the pro’s and con’s.
Pro’s
- Helps stimulate the economy by giving $99 to JetBrains.
- Its sluggishness gives you more time to think.
- You get a great exercise from using your mouse since you have to constantly scroll to the right to see the rest of the code. That’s right, no wordwrap.
- You get to install gems that does not appear anywhere in the code, even the Windows gems although these does not get installed on my Mac or Linux.
Con’s
- When evaluating my existing projects, “refactor” does not work.
- I get full of red dotted lines underneath constants and variables, even after “indexing”.
Conclusion
Nice try, but I’ll stick to VIM and TextMate.
