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by Tronno 548 days ago
Ruby, and Rails in particular, has a lackluster dev experience with any editor that isn't RubyMine. That's been a huge obstacle for me personally.
3 comments

Each to their own I guess.

Personally I like the ruby-lsp and TPope’s Rails plugin in NeoVim.

I dislike heavy weight IDEs, I never find the juice is worth the squeeze.

I want to like ruby lsp but it takes about 8 seconds to get method references in a large monorepo. It’s simply not good enough, and forces anyone looking for a good devex into rubymine
I'd suggest maybe trying either Solargraph[1] (which also works well for me) or a ctags based solution like ripper tags[2].

On the plus side, ruby-lsp is always being improved and worked on, so just like Ruby in general it's only getting better at what it does.

1. https://github.com/castwide/solargraph

2. https://github.com/tmm1/ripper-tags

Although a bit annoying to install I am still using the rails plugin for NetBeans.

I just never switched to Aptana or Rubymine and now I don't wanna.

ruby-lsp and rails-lsp from shopify is pretty good right now and getting better by the day. the vscode extension handles it well too.