Comments on: Teaching Mr. Rails a Lesson on Productivity http://lightbody.net/blog/2006/03/teaching_mr_rails_a_lesson_on.html Patrick Lightbody's personal blog Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:51:56 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lee Chu http://lightbody.net/blog/2006/03/teaching_mr_rails_a_lesson_on.html/comment-page-1#comment-785 Lee Chu Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:47:24 +0000 http://lightbody.net/blog/2006/3/teaching_mr_rails_a_lesson_on.html#comment-785 Now, although this is a quite well written post, the entire comparison is simply *RIDICULOUS*! They belong to 2 entirely different classes of "editors": IntelliJ IDEA is a full-blown IDE (as in *Integrated* Development Environment) whereas TextMate is, as you so rightly said, a "general purpose text editor". So, if you want to do comparisons, then review IDEA against *its own peers* ("Wikipedia comparison of IDEs":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments) and compare TextMate to *its competition* ("Wikipedia comparison of Text Editors":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors). Now, although this is a quite well written post, the entire comparison is simply RIDICULOUS!

They belong to 2 entirely different classes of “editors”: IntelliJ IDEA is a full-blown IDE (as in Integrated Development Environment) whereas TextMate is, as you so rightly said, a “general purpose text editor”.

So, if you want to do comparisons, then review IDEA against its own peers (Wikipedia comparison of IDEs) and compare TextMate to its competition (Wikipedia comparison of Text Editors).

]]> By: Sam SF http://lightbody.net/blog/2006/03/teaching_mr_rails_a_lesson_on.html/comment-page-1#comment-784 Sam SF Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:55:33 +0000 http://lightbody.net/blog/2006/3/teaching_mr_rails_a_lesson_on.html#comment-784 Excellent article on the features of IDEA. Even when I am programming in Ruby I use IDEA for all the reasons you outline here. It makes me feel like a CSS/HTML genius. The only thing I don't totally agree with is the lack of command line integration. Its actually pretty easy to define a command line tool in IDEA, bind it to a key, and use it, i.e. rake etc. They are pretty flexible too with the ability to use a lot of the context available. Excellent article on the features of IDEA. Even when I am programming in Ruby I use IDEA for all the reasons you outline here. It makes me feel like a CSS/HTML genius.

The only thing I don’t totally agree with is the lack of command line integration. Its actually pretty easy to define a command line tool in IDEA, bind it to a key, and use it, i.e. rake etc. They are pretty flexible too with the ability to use a lot of the context available.

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