Is Ruby IDE still heresy to ask for?
@ljgww_rb Rubymine may be?
@Lyosha I love JetBrains tools. They are magnificent. The price is the problem. I find it expensive.

@ljgww_rb @Lyosha nothing wrong with an IDE, IMHO; whatever you can be productive in!

And on the same note, I think any tool that makes you more productive is worth spending money on if necessary.

@james @ljgww_rb My coworkers use Rubimine and have very good opinion about it. But some of them use vscode with additions and customized spacemacs me included. A lot of nice ide-features for ruby development already implemented in spacemacs. If you looking for completely free ide-experience for ruby development, i think, spacemacs could be suitable for you. Learning curve is quite steep but rewarding.
@Lyosha @james I am quite OK with VSCode too - its not really IDE but it is very close for some functions (e.g. syntax highlight, git ops, running the code). VScode runs on two systems that I currently use the most (Win and Lin). I sweared to myself around 2012 that I will successfully ignore Macs in spite that I happily used them for good 2 decades. I amnog giving them a dime more.
If VSCode continue to be friendly as it currently is, it may suck in all significant development.
@Lyosha @james back to compiling Emacs on Linux
@Lyosha @james it was easier than expected. Compiled, installed, run. Looks like working.
Switching mode (changing hat) from builder to explorer.
@Lyosha @james spacemacs installation failed. In worst case scenario I will still have working emacs (original)
@ljgww_rb was there a failure message?
@james yea some components that are installed later failed. And overall it gives feeling of half working.
@james components run at startup (within emacs)
@james seems that I managed to install it with no errors (worked out differently, so cannot be 100% sure is working as expected). But what I got at the end is 100% unintuitive for me - still suspecting something may be wrong.
@ljgww_rb there's a steep learning curve, and it also assumes familiarity with #vim. To get you started, pressing space should pop up a menu you can start to explore.