Self As Team » emacs http://blog.intraspectivecorp.com Dallas based Ruby on Rails and Java Consulting Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:06:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 rails + emacs + windoze = less fail http://blog.intraspectivecorp.com/2009/08/10/rails-emacs-windoze-less-fail/ http://blog.intraspectivecorp.com/2009/08/10/rails-emacs-windoze-less-fail/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:55:07 +0000 David Hainlin http://blog.intraspectivecorp.com/2009/08/10/rails-emacs-windoze-less-fail/ Have spent the last few days working in Vista rather than OS X and it was looking fairly bleak until I spent some time updating my favorite editor. I have never liked full blown IDE’s (like Eclipse) for rails work. My first editor and still favorite is emacs. Textmate keeps my fingers humming on OS X but emacs is also running somewhere too. On windows, emacs is the main tool but I never really invested the time to update it (was running 21.x and 22.x versions which is quite old). So I spent some time this weekend to update it to 23.1.50 and add the ruby and rails modes. After some missteps, I finally have a fairly nice environment with pretty nice rails support. It even has snippets and quick navigation and refactoring (quickly create partials or helpers for example). I even have the ‘railscast’ theme so it looks pretty nice (at least what I’m used to on my Mac).

I can’t wait to go back to the Mac but at least I can be more productive while I’m slumming in Vista. The LONG delay on starting ruby processes (like tests, console, etc…) is sapping my will to live tho…

The info on rails and emacs on the web was pretty good but if someone wants my formula, I’ll be glad to post it.

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