Hi all, I'm just coming back to rails coding after a long hiatus. I was using rinari previously but noticed that there's a new version of emacs-rails. Is anyone using either? Any preferences for one over the other? What are people using for their rails projects within emacs these days?
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I personally favor rinari. It has a smaller feature set, but it interacts nicely with other modes such as (nxhtml) and it doesn't get in your way. It's also available in ELPA. I'm not sure what new emacs-rails release are you referring to since there has been no activity in its github repo for over an year now. Rinari is still actively developed.
Bozhidar Batsov
2010-04-26 11:54:43
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The Rails On Emacs Group sees little mention of emacs-rails, but many members are actively using rinari, often (but not always) in conjunction with nXhtml. Having switched from the first version of emacs-rails to rinari, I've been satisfied with its less invasive/totalitarian philosophy. I'm one of the two current rinari committers, and while the development isn't currently very active, one of the list members is working on compatibility with Rails 3.
sanityinc
2010-04-29 09:48:05
I was using rinari but found that when editing html.erb with nxhtml, performance would crash something chronic...sometimes taking up to 30 seconds to type a character. so I've gone with both for now. Rinari for everything but html editing, which kinda blows because nxhtml is definitely very nice
nimms
2010-05-03 01:21:57
Aha. I don't use nxhtml personally. Instead, I use a modified version of nxml-mode, with mmm-mode. (http://github.com/purcell/emacs.d)However, if you post your config + versions etc. on the google group mentioned above, you'll most likely get a helpful response from Lennart, the nxhtml maintainer.
sanityinc
2010-05-03 10:41:57