

It gives you a structural view of the file at hand. I liked very much the Outline navigator feature. Note that I will not expand on the documentation of each extension. Here is the list of extensions that I have installed plus some other useful tips I believe you should be aware of. Installing extensions on VS code is absolutely a breeze.

If you decide to use VS Code for your Ruby development, you will have to install some extensions to make it work well. How did I switch - Extensions I Installed It is fast and offers me all the tools that I have been using with the commercial IDE. I am very happy with VS Code, and I would recommend it. Since many of my colleagues were using Visual Studio Code I decided to give it a try. Note: I am a MacBook Pro user with a relatively old but still powerful (for what I do) I believe: Retina 15-inch Mid-2015, 2,5 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB, 500GB SSD. The IDE was having a hard time indexing my files, in particular, but, in general too, my laptop CPU started having a hard time when I had big projects loaded.

I was really happy, but lately, I would say the last year, my development flow has been becoming slower and slower. I have been using a commercial IDE for my Ruby and Ruby on Rails development for the last 12 years, since I first started developing using, Ruby, this fantastic programming language.
