From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-12-18T02:56:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby IDE

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Mushfeq Khan wrote:
> Ideally you would keep your IDE open all the time. But in practice thin=
gs
> are often less than ideal. As intellijent as these things are, they are=

> also
> often very memory and disk intensive and eclipse your computer's resour=
ces.
> I have the good fortune of using two rather heavyweight IDEs during the=

> course of my daily work and I find that on average I have to restart at=

> least once a day due to bugs, corrupted local histories and other gener=
al
> wonkiness.
>=20

Weird, that didn't really happen to me on IDEA yet.

> That's not so bad, but sometimes there are legitimate usage patterns th=
at
> become a real pain. For example, if you're working on several different=

> projects each day, all of them large-ish codebases, then you probably d=
on't
> want to keep them all open at the same time. Closing and reloading proj=
ects
> in the IDEs that I use is no quicker than a full restart.
>=20

Oi, talk about pots and kettles. I've never had the scenario of having
to split work time between projects and shamefully oversaw it.

Obviously, the solution is to keep all projects open at once, switching
between the windows (or more probably virtual desktops) and pester your
employer for more RAM ;P


David Vallner


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