# What's your development environment? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 20, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-development-environment/89417 "2007-03-20T11:05:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daniel_fischer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 11:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-development-environment/89417/1 "2007-03-20T11:05:44Z")
Right now I have an iMac, but I’m considering buying a Macbook or Mac Book Pro and then selling my iMac, and then also getting a large display 24" or 30" (depending whether I go macbook or mac book pro). If anyone would like to give me feedback regarding this dilemma, that would be great. ---
**Author:** ![daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daniel_fischer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 12:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-development-environment/89417/2 "2007-03-20T12:34:46Z")
I have a MacBook Pro with a 30" display and I still wish for more screen space. I keep TextMate open in a window that is about 1/2 the screen. The other half gets about 2-3 Terminal windows for the server and general command use. THen there are numerous browser windows and such that are in front or behind as needed. I would like a second 30" to put all the reference material and the browser window I am using for testing. That way I could look at it all at once. If Apple announces new displays soon I may get there. At the same time, it is possible to work on just the MacBook Pro screen when traveling, I just do more window management. Michael On Mar 20, 3:05 am, daniel fischer [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daniel_fischer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-development-environment/89417/3 "2007-03-20T13:55:13Z")
Really really want a Mac, but for now it’s either Windows (work computer) and CMD or on Linux at home, bash, with Vim and Firefox (firebug, webdev). I’m a command-line junkie, but man, TextMate for Windows would ROCK (yes, I’ll eventually give e a try). Jason ---
**Author:** ![daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daniel_fischer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-development-environment/89417/4 "2007-03-20T14:05:15Z")
Hi all, 2007/3/20, Jason R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > Really really want a Mac, but for now it’s either Windows (work computer) > and CMD or on Linux at home, bash, with Vim and Firefox (firebug, webdev). I just switched to Ubuntu from Windows XP. Very good so far. I reported on my changes here: [http://blog.teksol.info/articles/2007/03/19/now-on-ubuntu](http://blog.teksol.info/articles/2007/03/19/now-on-ubuntu) Jason, on Windows, you should try the e Text Editor: [http://www.e-texteditor.com/](http://www.e-texteditor.com/). It uses the same bundles as TextMate, except it runs on Windows. Before I switched to Ubuntu, that’s what I was using exclusively. ## Bye ! François Beausoleil [http://blog.teksol.info/](http://blog.teksol.info/) [http://piston.rubyforge.org/](http://piston.rubyforge.org/) ---
**Author:** ![daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daniel_fischer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-development-environment/89417/5 "2007-03-20T14:58:55Z")
you have to get a program like VirtueDesktop. in my setup, i have one open for all my terminals, and 1 web browser, the second more web browers and reference material, the third environment is for graphics editing. i am running a 30" and a 17" mbp. to the original poster, i highly recommned the 24" but if you got money to spare, the 30" is awesome. when i start making some money, id like to get a imac 24" connected to my 30" dell. or maybe just get a mac pro with duel 30’s!. MichaelLatta wrote: > I have a MacBook Pro with a 30" display and I still wish for more > screen space. I keep TextMate open in a window that is about 1/2 the > screen. The other half gets about 2-3 Terminal windows for the server > and general command use. THen there are numerous browser windows and > such that are in front or behind as needed. I would like a second 30" > to put all the reference material and the browser window I am using > for testing. That way I could look at it all at once. If Apple > announces new displays soon I may get there. At the same time, it is > possible to work on just the MacBook Pro screen when traveling, I just > do more window management. > > Michael > > On Mar 20, 3:05 am, daniel fischer [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daniel_fischer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-development-environment/89417/6 "2007-03-20T15:33:49Z")
daniel fischer wrote: > Right now I have an iMac, but I’m considering buying a Macbook or Mac > Book Pro and then selling my iMac, and then also getting a large display > 24" or 30" (depending whether I go macbook or mac book pro). If anyone > would like to give me feedback regarding this dilemma, that would be > great. MacBook. I have 2 x 19" LCDs from the legacy of my Windows development past, but haven’t bought a dvi adaptor yet. To be honest I love my MacBook and screen realestate hasn’t proven to be a problem developing rails apps. I love the portability, and it pretty much goes where I do. A spare battery and a shoulder satchel/bag will be my next purchases though. I guess I could use a larger desktop for Flash development, and Aperture, but I’m pretty happy with it as it is. I don’t know if I could handle being tethered anymore. ---
**Author:** ![daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daniel_fischer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-development-environment/89417/7 "2007-03-20T20:26:43Z")
kaps lock wrote: > daniel fischer wrote: > > > Right now I have an iMac, but I’m considering buying a Macbook or Mac > > Book Pro and then selling my iMac, and then also getting a large display > > 24" or 30" (depending whether I go macbook or mac book pro). If anyone > > would like to give me feedback regarding this dilemma, that would be > > great. > > MacBook. I have 2 x 19" LCDs from the legacy of my Windows development > past, but haven’t bought a dvi adaptor yet. To be honest I love my > MacBook and screen realestate hasn’t proven to be a problem developing > rails apps. I love the portability, and it pretty much goes where I do. > A spare battery and a shoulder satchel/bag will be my next purchases > though. I guess I could use a larger desktop for Flash development, and > Aperture, but I’m pretty happy with it as it is. I don’t know if I could > handle being tethered anymore. You can add two monitors to a macbook? How? I thought only one monitor per a graphics card? ---
**Author:** ![daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daniel_fischer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-development-environment/89417/8 "2007-03-20T20:56:36Z")
I got the MacBook Pro 17" with the 7200-rpm drive option, and it ships with 2 gigs of ram. I also picked up a second monitor by Gateway. They have a nice 22" HD LCD (model FPD2275W) for around $400 at Best Buy that has a great picture and connects via DVI. I’m quite happy. The MacBooks are nice too but I got tired of command-tabbing around my 12" Powerbook screen all the time. On Mar 20, 3:05 am, daniel fischer [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@daniel\_fischer](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daniel_fischer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/whats-your-development-environment/89417/9 "2007-03-20T23:08:36Z")
daniel fischer wrote: > You can add two monitors to a macbook? How? I thought only one monitor > per a graphics card? No, you can’t add two (that I know of), I was just mentioning that I had a couple of spare 19"ers left over from my evil days. I plan on using one of them, I’d use both if I could though. I sort of miss that capability.