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RubyMine is now free for non-commercial use

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177 points bartekpacia | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 12:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.265s | source
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phendrenad2 ◴[02 Sep 25 13:55 UTC] No.45103164[source]▶
It's been a long time since I last used RubyMine, but I always felt that it was the weakest of the JetBrains tools. And not because JetBrains didn't try hard enough, but because Ruby just doesn't offer a lot of opportunities for an IDE to take advantage of.

I ended up cancelling my subscription over some trivial thing (I think it was the fact that I couldn't quite get the IDE to preserve the indentation of a file. It was an all-or-nothing global setting, but I work on codebases that might have a 4-space indent HTML file and a 2-space indent HTML File in the same directory, and the IDE was ignoring the current style of the file and using whatever indent level I had configured).

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1. TheAceOfHearts ◴[02 Sep 25 14:52 UTC] No.45103891[source]▶
It's been a really long time since I last used RubyMine as well, but one of my complaints back then was that it didn't help much when trying to debug code that made heavy use of metaprogramming. Maybe capabilities have improved since then. Despite that limitation, RubyMine still provided a far better debugging experience than what could be achieved through the default ruby debugging tools.