Ruby and Rails Visual Studio IDE...???

Oct 09

Posted by Annalisa Afeltra in Ruby on Rails - 2 comments

I am sure you have read that a Visual Studio IDE for Ruby and Rails has been released, this probably will help those who are new to Ruby and we might even have some new comers to the Ruby on Rails community which is always welcome.

Even though this would be an advantage for those who are use to code completion, code indenting, bracket highlighting and matching and that what Visual Studio offers, to me this takes the fun out of Ruby on Rails.

I was introduced to Ruby on Rails last year April after being a Visual Studio user since it was launched, I must admit that at first I had to get use to the fact of programming without the code completer, but after a few weeks I was hooked, I loved the command line and programming dynamics of Ruby, with Ruby you are in control of your code, as my colleague described it, ruby is “the kind of language that you can talk to”.

I feel with Code completer you become lazy and dependent on the IDE, in programming there is always more than one way of doing something and Ruby allows us to do just that, exploring our horizons.

Therefore I will not be uninstalling my Textmate any time soon…

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