Ask HN: Which tools you use to develop your webapp?

#1

Post by pkc » Sun, Jan 10, 2010, 3:40 PM UTC

Which tools like IDE, editor do you use to develop your webapp? Paid ones as well as free ones. I am particularly interested in applications using frameworks like Ruby on Rails, DJango or CakePHP.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools you use to develop your webapp?

#2

Post by vorador » Sun, Jan 10, 2010, 3:41 PM UTC

Emacs and firebug.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools you use to develop your webapp?

#3

Post by lec » Sun, Jan 10, 2010, 3:47 PM UTC

vorador wrote: post #2

Emacs and firebug.

Ditto

Re: Ask HN: Which tools you use to develop your webapp?

#4

Post by billturner » Sun, Jan 10, 2010, 3:55 PM UTC

Textmate, Firebug, Chrome & Safari's web inspector, Sequel Pro (for MySQL), Gitx, github.com, and Terminal.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools you use to develop your webapp?

#5

Post by mantas » Sun, Jan 10, 2010, 4:13 PM UTC

billturner wrote: post #4

Textmate, Firebug, Chrome & Safari's web inspector, Sequel Pro (for MySQL), Gitx, github.com, and Terminal.

+1. And I use VIM too.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools you use to develop your webapp?

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Post by HendrikR » Sun, Jan 10, 2010, 4:31 PM UTC

mantas wrote: post #5

billturner wrote: post #4

Textmate, Firebug, Chrome & Safari's web inspector, Sequel Pro (for MySQL), Gitx, github.com, and Terminal.

+1. And I use VIM too.

+another1 CSSEdit which is great.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools you use to develop your webapp?

#7

Post by csuper » Sun, Jan 10, 2010, 4:41 PM UTC

Currently while developing a Rails app I'm using Notepad++ on my provided XP machine. And normally Pico when SSH'd in, making quick updates.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools you use to develop your webapp?

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Post by mechanical_fish » Sun, Jan 10, 2010, 4:46 PM UTC

billturner wrote: post #4

Textmate, Firebug, Chrome & Safari's web inspector, Sequel Pro (for MySQL), Gitx, github.com, and Terminal.

The same, but with emacs and magit standing in for Textmate and Gitx.

The only reason to depart from these tools is if you need a PHP debugger -- Ruby has a perfectly fine command-line debugger, but PHP's debuggers are an incredible pain in the ass by comparison. Most of the pro PHP coders I know use Komodo or NuSphere PHPed for debugging (although only a percentage of them use such IDEs for actual coding). I despise IDEs and use debuggers too rarely to feel like spending the money on those tools; on the rare occasions that I need a PHP debugger I use XDebug with MacGDBp and pray that it doesn't crash. It seems to be working better, based on the last time I tried it, sometime last month.

Re: Ask HN: Which tools you use to develop your webapp?

#9

Post by generalk » Sun, Jan 10, 2010, 6:17 PM UTC

billturner wrote: post #4

Textmate, Firebug, Chrome & Safari's web inspector, Sequel Pro (for MySQL), Gitx, github.com, and Terminal.

All of that, but replace Terminal.app with iTerm.app -- it's 2010 and Apple still hasn't released a terminal emulator that supports 256 colors.