RubyMine

RubyMine has everything you’d want from an IDE for modern Rails web development. Having tried out quite a few, I’d happily recommend RubyMine above all others. The static analysis tools are fantastic and a great help for beginners, the inbuilt Git integration and database browser makes things so much easier, and there are countless other features that help increase productivity.

Our whole team, including Engineers, QA, and less technical Product Analysts, all use RubyMine with confidence. Being able to share settings and profiles has meant that it’s quick to get new members of the team up and running and that paired programming is smoother. Search and navigation is particularly easy, meaning we are often able to quickly check references whilst brainstorming ideas.

As a seasoned user of RubyMine (started in 2009) I’m sure that investment in JetBrains tools is worth my time. Extremely efficient navigation through the codebase, mindset of building toolset around keyboard shortcuts and powerful searching features. It feels like IDE understands my code providing a great assist and confidence with any kind of refactoring. RubyMine is definitely heavy duty, all around Rails ecosystem toolset — whenever you are doing backend or frontend part of Ruby on Rails apps, you have support for almost anything you need.

Having a lot of previous experience with Visual Studio/C#, I was a little wary when starting with Ruby. I was unfamiliar with the syntax and the tool chain. With RubyMine I was able to jump right into writing productive Ruby code. The tool helped setup all the tedious build requirements for projects. As I used the tool, the suggestions it offered help me learn more of the Ruby language, including the preferred idiomatic style. I feel I have learned a lot more about Ruby simply by using RubyMine.

I think it is one of the best IDEs I have ever used. I like it a lot already, but the more I explore, the more I like it! It’s so easy to use. I have spent no time to tweak it, or learn how to do things. It just works. I like it lots.

Using RubyMine allows me to develop using a common tool making it easier to pair and help each other out without having to lose productivity due to the context switching from one development environment (platform) to another.

RubyMine’s GUI for easily stepping through code in the debugger is great. The inline code analysis is nice for quickly catching typos and the code completion can be useful too. But for me, the best part about having RubyMine is the navigation and documentation. Being able to instantly bring up documentation is awesome! If I need more information, I hate wasting time trying to hunt down a method buried in code that I am not familiar with. With one key-stroke RubyMine takes me to the code I’m looking for.

I have been using RubyMine for a long time and can say it is an absolute dream to work in! I use it daily, integrated with various version control systems, and automating remote file syncs. The automatic running of tests while I’m refactoring and coding is a key feature for me. JetBrains is regularly adding new features, and it’s super easy to pick up.

When I started learning Ruby, just a year ago, I tried every IDE out there. I was never really happy until I found RubyMine.I don’t think I could have even learned Ruby as quickly as I did without RubyMine. All of the smart notifications, syntax highlighting and refactoring functions actually taught me a lot about coding. Things tutorials and other IDE’s let slide, RubyMine helped me to adopt. Then once I got the hang of things, RubyMine helped me to write code faster. The code navigation, powerful search tools and keyboard shortcuts saved a ton of time. I’d recommend RubyMine to anyone learning to code with Ruby or Rails.