G2

Hari G.

Lead Technical Architect

Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/12/2016

"Most powerful Ruby IDE on the market."

3.5/5

What do you like best about RubyMine?

It's the heaviest, most feature-complete editor for Ruby available. Out of the box. Period. Quick project navigation, incredible refactoring tools, incredible testing support, native support for Ruby-related tech, etc. Nothing else comes close.

I've been a paying customer for over four years now, and I've used it pretty much every working day since I started with Ruby. It's been a blast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about RubyMine?

it's a Java app, and requires a pretty beefy system to run it well, especially if you're working with a large codebase. I work on a top-tier Macbook Pro, and it never feels fast. Sometimes, it even gets dead slow, and it can get frustrating. Indexing always takes a lot of time, and even simple things like navigating to another file by searching (double-shift shortcut) can be painfully non-responsive, taking whole seconds to find the queried file. In contrast, an editor like ATOM is lightning-fast, and it's difficult to recommend Rubymine because the performance / speed situation is hard to ignore, when you're paying a hefty sum of money to use the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering RubyMine:

Try it out. The refactoring tools are absolutely magical. My jaw dropped to the floor the first time I saw it in action - Juggling methods and classes around like it was nothing. However, note that you need a good system to let it breathe, and some patience when it inevitably slows down every now and then. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is RubyMine solving and how is that benefiting you?

On the whole, it saves time. A lot of it, that would otherwise be spent switching contexts to do related tasks. Want to boot up the development Rails server? One key combo plus enter. Want to checkout the contents of the database? Use the inbuilt GUI. Want to see the history of the file you're working on, and who's to blame for that awfully fat method? Use built-in Git annotate feature. Want to run your tests? Another key combo, pops up a built-in test runner and code navigator. It's got everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.