Ruby on Rails

tonypm wrote:
[...]
> When you've been used to the normal windows
> style keystrokes,

"Normal"? What makes them any more or less "normal"?

> the emacs ones take a bit of getting used to. But
> I am getting there by forcing myself to use it for my real
> development. I am already beginning to feel more comfortable.

[...]

>> NetBeans is an excellent IDE, but it's overkill for Rails. �(I'd be
>> curious to know about it's sluggishness, though -- it has consistently
>> been pretty fast for me on Snow Leopard.)
> I do like NetBeans, but I found it is hungry on resource, and I notice
> a distinct delay when browsing the file tree or opening a file etc.
> Also, the auto suggest popup boxes keep coming on. I turn them off
> but they reappear. I find that annoying because they frequently pop
> up just as I have finished entering a line, and their appearance
> causes a delay whilst they are escaped. I may be missing a setting
> somewhere to turn them off. For portability, I actually use a small
> machine for development, which is probably why NB feels a bit slow.

Right! You don't need a heavy IDE for Rails, so don't use one.

[...]
>> > �Syntax highlighting is great
>>
>> Any better than in other editors?
> Not necessarily better, but haml and sass highlighting is available
> which is not true for all other editors (I actually like bluefish a
> lot, but I havn't found a haml/sass option). Flagging of syntax
> errors seems pretty good too.

KomodoEdit has a Haml module (not Sass, though), which is one of the
reasons I really like it for Rails.

Best,
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