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Can anyone vouch for RubyMine? Its going to be my first venture in to the language, is it a good tool to have?

I'm looking at Rubymine and PHPstorm, at these prices ill call it a Christmas present from me to me.

Unfortunately lots of other people seem to have the same idea and the site is currently bricked.

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One vote for rubymine. It handles all the rubyisms like rvm, rbenv, bundler and the various servers nicely as well as syntax hightlighting for all the ususals plus haml, coffeescript etc.

It also looks like it will be getting nice Torquebox integration soon if you are a jruby / Torquebox person.

I must admit though that I do not use the advanced features half as much as I should.

Every Ruby user I know personally that's tried RubyMine loves it; from total beginners to experts (myself included).

Note that IntelliJ effectively includes both RubyMine and PHPStorm (+ PyCharm); it's the better choice if you're wanting both.

RubyMine has my vote for best Ruby IDE (at least in terms of what I've personally used). It has many helpful features (e.g.: click-through to classes/method definitions), and its ability to debug just pushes it right over the top to make it a must-have for me.

It's a very nice IDE but I found that it felt too slow and laggy compared to a text editor. In my case the bells and whistles weren't worth feeling like I was typing on a dialup shell so I stopped using it.

I'm a ruby novice, and I love me my IDEs. I've been quite happy with RubyMine, this coming from a Visual Studio user.

It also integrates with using Foreman so you can still debug in the IDE, which since I deploy to Heroku (and I'm a big ol Ruby novice), was a really big plus.

Sold. Thanks everyone, this is why i love this community =)

RubyMine is very good.

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