Will using an IDE with Rails hinder me?

Question

I\'m new to Ruby on Rails and so far, I\'m having a lot of fun learning it. Coming from the .NET world, it\'s been quite a switch as my IDE (Visual Studio 2008) sort of hand

Answer 1

I too was using RubyMine; it's an excellent IDE (naturally, being a JetBrains tool), but as a fairly new Rails guy, I found it doing just a bit too much for me. It tends to obscure what's really going on behind the scenes. However, for someone who has gotten accustomed to being able to step through code in a debugger and inspect variables, RubyMine was incredibly helpful and actually added to my understanding of the code (and of course Netbeans and others can do this too; I just really like how RubyMine "handles").

So in general, I say what most other people say: there are facets of IDE use that make things much clearer; just make sure the IDE isn't becoming a crutch.