Atom vs RubyMine: What are the differences?

Developers describe Atom as "A hackable text editor for the 21st Century". At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it. On the other hand, RubyMine is detailed as "The Most Intelligent Ruby and Rails IDE". JetBrains RubyMine IDE provides a comprehensive Ruby code editor aware of dynamic language specifics and delivers smart coding assistance, intelligent code refactoring and code analysis capabilities.

Atom and RubyMine are primarily classified as "Text Editor" and "Integrated Development Environment" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Atom are:

• Atom is a desktop application based on web technologies
• Node.js integration
• Modular Design- composed of over 50 open-source packages that integrate around a minimal core

On the other hand, RubyMine provides the following key features:

• Intelligent Ruby Editor
• On-the-fly code analysis
• Rails Models Diagram, Rails Project View

"Free" is the top reason why over 514 developers like Atom, while over 61 developers mention "Productive" as the leading cause for choosing RubyMine.

Atom is an open source tool with 49.3K GitHub stars and 12.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Atom's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Atom has a broader approval, being mentioned in 836 company stacks & 725 developers stacks; compared to RubyMine, which is listed in 92 company stacks and 46 developer stacks.