From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T02:46:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows

On 9/7/05, graham <fghfghfh@homr.vom> wrote:

> > You could ask them why they need all that IDE stuff for developing in Ruby.

> Because they develop complex applications with many Classes, thousands
> of lines of code and complex interactions. They probably also work on
> multiple projects at once, swap between java, HTML, CSS, SQL, Javascript
> and want an IDE to "just handle it" and be able to debug it. They like
> refactoring support, integrated version control, 1 click deployment
> across different servers etc etc. A text editor just can't cut it. (IMHO)

I do all the above (except debugging and Java) with just vim. 
(assuming that unit tests are a substitute for refactoring)