Every time I go to a Rails meetup, I also get mac-envy… It seems I am one of the few rails develoeprs not using a Mac.
I thought about getting a Mac. In fact, my fiance has one, and I get to borrow it sometimes, but I’ve decided against getting a mac for myself. The reason? The end user experience…
Most of the big rails names use a mac, and most screencasts show textmate in use. Textmate looks very powerful. I thouight about this for a while, but decided to stay with a PC for development. Here’s the list I was weighing:
Benefits of Mac: The rails community seems more mac oriented, apples sense of design should taken on by most web developers, textmate.
Benefits of PC: Most end users of any web app I develop will be using a PC. I need to feel what they feel.
The PC won out. There are some good tools for PC rails development. As I said in my last post, InstantRails is amazing. For editors I’ve used both RoRad & RadRails – preferring RadRails by a fair bit. There are a few ‘gotchas’ to watch out for, which I’ll post in a very short while…
