I think it is a question of taste and how much you automate.
The thing I like about emacs or gvim is that I can tell it
exactly what todo – but probably you can do that with
most others … if only you know how.
I think it is worth your time to look at one editor, say emacs
and force yourself to use it and look up the commands for
one week. You will get very quick and do all from the keyboard
and hardly use the mouse at all.
Are there any “must-haves” for Ruby? Modules, IDEs, etc?
I think that some of the ‘must-haves’ are:
‘ri’ and/or Ruby in a nutshell by `matz’ (reference guides)
Programming Ruby, by Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt (a book to begin with)
The Ruby Way, by Hal Fulton (advanced topics)
All of them are excellent resources which worths a lot more than their
cost (some of them are free, btw).
W.
PS: Maybe you can consider “Ruby Developer’s Guide” too … but I can’t
tell anything more specific about it - I didn’t opened that one, yet.
Still enjoying ‘The Ruby Way’ …
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