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A Rubyist's development environment

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I know HN discourages these kinds of meta-discussions, and not to denigrate Sirupsen's post in any way, but how did this get so many upvotes? (Currently 16 in 45 minutes, with only one comment.)

This post basically says: Bash, VIM, Dropbox. Not a bad set of recommendations, but I'm surprised this falls under the heading of "anything good hackers would find interesting".

Perhaps because it has Ruby in the title?

It doesn't really have much content to it. A post with more info on integrating debugging (or whatever issues are relevant for Ruby) would be more interesting than just saying, "Vim and dropbox".

FWIW, I've made posts here that have been voted highly and attracted zero comments. I think the content-to-votes ratio is OK to question, but getting X votes in Y minutes or the number of comments isn't really a reliable indicator on HN, IMHO.

My bash configuration is pretty simple. ... It also sets my PS1 which only puts out the current directory. I figured that I already know my username, and hostname.

Haven't been using *nix for very long? Just a guess.

For my dev machine I have "user@host:path" in the titlebar of the window and just path as my user prompt.

For remote servers I keep user@host in the prompt, so absence of user@host is an implicit me@mymachine

I'm a big fan of Mac + bash + Textmate + Transmit (FTP) + Dropbox (this is my work setup). At home, I have three monitors right now and run Windows 7. Instead of Textmate, I use e-text editor. Instead of Transmit, I use Filezilla. Center monitor is 25.5" widescreen 1080p, then 19" 4:3 on each side. The center I have my editor open, explorer, with a few other little things going on (im windows), the right monitor I keep console2 open with a few tabs (cmd prompt, server, console), and left window is a full screen browser for testing.

I liked this:

$ ln -s Dropbox/dotfiles/.vim ~/

Uzbl sounds like a very cool thing indeed. The mouseless GUI is something I've been slowly trying to have, and that's a very nice piece of it.

There's nothing about ruby in this post (do a find on 'ruby', you'll see)

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