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RubyMine: RubyMotion is on Board

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30 pointsarunagarwal9 comments

I really wish IntelliJ would work harder on keeping their plugins up-to-date...the version of the Ruby plugin for IntelliJ (which they sell as supporting all of their various language-specific IDEs) is well behind RubyMine (It's not even on 4.5).

I had the option at work (we are moving into doing some Rails stuff) to get either IntelliJ or RubyMine. I decided to get the full-blown suite, at over 2x the cost, because we do do stuff in other languages.

Had I known that I was spending more of the companies money to get a product that was inferior for my main usage, I certainly would have just gotten RubyMine.

I started using RubyMine for my Rails development a year or so ago after using its sister product, PyCharm, at work.

It completely changed the way I look at Rails application coding. Before then, I used Rails despite the lack of good development and debugging tools. With the addition of a full-featured IDE, I practically rediscovered my joy of programming in Ruby on Rails.

On top of liking the product, I've enjoyed all of my interactions with JetBrains. They're moving fast with feature additions, but they seem to take the time to ensure that their products are stable and well thought-out.

I would gladly put money down for any other products of theirs in the future that seemed to fill a need I have.

I fell in love with JetBrains IDEs back when I was doing Java development full time. I have been and on and off user of RubyMine for Rails development but RubyMotion support seals the deal for me! I know this is 'early experience' but it works really well. Being able to use the REPL inside the IDE is awesome too. For those that waited to get RubyMotion because the iOS APIs are just too hard to use without command completion...your wait is over :)

True

I will be interested to see a good comparison of productivity vs. Objective-C based stuff.

We are about to decide whether to build our iOS app in Ruby or Objective-C, and as we are primarily a Ruby shop are leaning in that direction, but are worried that the tools aren't good enough to make it a net win.

one example:

http://blog.rubymotion.com/post/30514580062/rubymotion-succe...

That is a pretty glowing review. I went through their blog and found a couple others. Thanks for the pointer.

It looks like there has already been a bit of code released to help make it more like programming with other Ruby frameworks. I'm sure this will continue to improve.

As an aside: the rendering of their blog is a little messed up on my current machine (Windows 7, Chrome)

If you do Ruby and you want to make an iOS app, you should immediately purchase RubyMotion as quickly as you can. You still have to learn how iOS apps work in general and how the UIKit works. But you'd have to learn that anyway.

I was on the fence about it, but I took a shot and it's great. After a few weeks of working on it as a side-project, my app is nearly done. It has gone much more smoothly than I would have thought and it was really easy to get up and running. It was nice to not have to switch to XCode, and use my editor and command line like I usually do. Also, the support is top-notch, the lead developer responded to an issue I had pretty much immediately. And the community is really cool too.

Would be interested to develop the same app using rubymine/rubymotion and natively with jetbrains appcode http://www.jetbrains.com/objc. Would the code wrangling ability of appcode make the experience easy enough (e.g generating boilerplate class definitions) that the benefits of rubymotion aren't that great?

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