Microsoft Visual Studio Code vs. RubyMine

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code, a text editor that supports code editing, debugging, IntelliSense syntax highlighting, and other features.
$0
RubyMine
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
RubyMine is an intelligent Ruby and Rails IDE deployment from Jet Brains.
$9.90
per month per user
Pricing
Microsoft Visual Studio CodeRubyMine
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
For Individuals
$99
per year per user
For Organizations
$229
per year per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Visual Studio CodeRubyMine
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Microsoft Visual Studio CodeRubyMine
Considered Both Products
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Chose Microsoft Visual Studio Code
While Sublime Text, another free alternative, is faster and snappier than Code, the extensions that are available on it are sub-par (it doesn't even have an official extension store). This makes using it for any serious work unpleasant, at least to me.

IntelliJ's dedicated IDEs …
RubyMine
Chose RubyMine
RubyMine is specifically for Ruby On Rails so it is more focused and having more syntax autocompletion and other tasks automation with good code debugging skill. So, for particular Ruby On Rails project development it is much more advanced and effective than any other general …
Top Pros
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Best Alternatives
Microsoft Visual Studio CodeRubyMine
Small Businesses
BBEdit
BBEdit
Score 8.2 out of 10
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Vim
Vim
Score 9.7 out of 10
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Vim
Vim
Score 9.7 out of 10
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Microsoft Visual Studio CodeRubyMine
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(89 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(24 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft Visual Studio CodeRubyMine
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is highly recommended for the development of systems and / or complex applications entrusted to work teams under a specific methodology, and its use is also recommended for the maintenance of previously developed applications.
It is not recommended as a learning environment for developers with little experience as the learning curve would be too high
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JetBrains
If you are Ruby On Rails Developer, RubyMine is great choice of IDE. It provides good integration with rails so that running rake tasks, generators, bundle install all can be done from within the IDE. So using RubyMine it decreases extra time to go to googling syntax for Ruby code and making developer more productive.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Very accessible -- it's compatible with all platforms and environments, free to install, and fast to open
  • Strong native support for many languages, and very strong extensibility to provide advanced language features
  • Git integration is top-notch, often displaying a better history, diff, and merge interface that is otherwise available in version control systems
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JetBrains
  • auto completes almost all syntax for Ruby On Rails
  • RubyMine is having ability to browse the source code for any gem you are using
  • find in project work fast and too much effective
  • Adding a breakpoints and debugging code for errors is just great with RubyMine
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Lack of button bar like ones found in Visual Studio.
  • Lack of integrated help that could link to YouTube, Channel 9, or other Microsoft videos on how to learn about features.
  • Integration with Team Foundation Server.
  • Would like to see it having some sort of integration into a Web API testing harness.
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JetBrains
  • frequent software updates is sometimes tedious
  • uses more CPU memory to run, it's not light weight process
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
Solid tool that provides everything you need to develop most types of applications. The only reason not a 10 is that if you are doing large distributed teams on Enterprise level, Professional does provide more tools to support that and would be worth the cost.
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JetBrains
No answers on this topic
Usability
Microsoft
This is a tool for programmers and it works like many others. If you are in the development world already then you will be sailing in no time with Microsoft Visual Studio Code. It is also great for new developers and it is very easy to use and you can get all the tools you need in one place as you begin to learn.
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JetBrains
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Microsoft
Active development means filing a bug on the GitHub repo typically gets you a response within 4 days. There are plugins for almost everything you need, whether it be linting, Vim emulation, even language servers (which I use to code in Scala). There is well-maintained official documentation. The only thing missing is forums. The closest thing is GitHub issues, which typically has the answers but is hard to sift through -- there are currently 78k issues.
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JetBrains
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
[Microsoft] Visual Studio Code beats the competition due to its extensibility. Their robust extensions architecture combined with the plethora of mostly free extensions written by the community can't be beaten. The fact that this tool itself is provided by a world-recognized company, Microsoft, free of charge is phenomenal. The goodwill garnered by them is immeasurable. Other tools I've used were missing features or were just too rigid, too complicated, or too unsophisticated for my liking. The fact that VS Code is easy to mold to my will with the right extensions seals the deal.
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JetBrains
RubyMine is specifically for Ruby On Rails so it is more focused and having more syntax autocompletion and other tasks automation with good code debugging skill. So, for particular Ruby On Rails project development it is much more advanced and effective than any other general IDE like Visual studio and Sublime Text.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Positive impact on minimizing time wasted by employees with software installation and setup
  • Positive impact on reducing spend on software licensing
  • Positive impact on minimizing time used to manage different applications for different purposes - this performs all of the functions we need in basic coding
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JetBrains
  • sometimes it feels slow down system because of using RubyMine as it requires more memory and power.
  • RubyMine is great choice of any Ruby On Rails Developer as it reduces time of project development by providing lots of inbuilt functionalities like autocompletes syntax running rake task, git integrations and many more
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