RubyMine
Shares rank 26 of 33 IDEs by recommenders
Recommended as a strong IDE with good autocomplete and easier conflict resolution than editing text markers. Most common caveat: heavy RAM use.
Recommended as a strong IDE with good autocomplete and easier conflict resolution than editing text markers. Most common caveat: heavy RAM use.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 54%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.1 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Powerful IDE for Ruby tooling
“even with powerful IDEs like RubyMine that are able to cover some of the paint points”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Returning to Rails in 2026” “The tooling is also shit unless you use Ruby Mine.”
Comment from 19 Apr 2026 in “Optimizing Ruby Path Methods” Strong autocomplete and LSP support
“those who really care about LSP support usually will use RubyMine IDE instead”
Comment from 21 Dec 2025 in “Ruby website redesigned” “The autocomplete of RubyMine is that good.”
Comment from 25 Sep 2026 in “What About Rails?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slow fixes from JetBrains
“failed to gain attention from JetBrains for months and years on their issue tracker”
Comment from 10 Dec 2025 in “The Unified IntelliJ Idea: More Free Features, Better Experience, Smoother Flow” “that crap would take a month to be fixed by JetBrains”
Comment from 22 Feb 2026 in “Fix Your Tools”
Other IDEs people recommend
The four most recommended other IDEs, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JetBrains IDEs | 233 | 143 | 62% | 13 | 10 yrs39 owners | — |
| IntelliJ IDEA | 206 | 105 | 66% | 13 | 10 yrs18 owners | — |
| Microsoft Visual Studio | 165 | 165 | 50% | 12 | 10 yrs10 owners | — |
| Delphi | 126 | 44 | 74% | 13 | 23 yrs4 owners | Approved |
| RubyMineThis page | 7 | 6 | 54% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
All 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It's also a total RAM hog.”
“The autocomplete of RubyMine is that good.”
“the time needed to configure them (I remember trying to setup RubyMine debugger.. yuck!)”
“There's no way to tweak the re-indexing settings or determine when it will kick off.”
“The tooling is also shit unless you use Ruby Mine.”
“even with powerful IDEs like RubyMine that are able to cover some of the paint points”
“that crap would take a month to be fixed by JetBrains”
“RubyMine having a subscription fee”
“Their conflict resolution UI is so much easier than editing text contents between the >>>>s and <<<<s.”
“It's also not really suitable for small scripting.”
“those who really care about LSP support usually will use RubyMine IDE instead”
“failed to gain attention from JetBrains for months and years on their issue tracker”
“not even a strong IDE like RubyMine can save you”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.