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Discussion on: Developing Rails apps using an iPad

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John Luke Garofalo

I tried to go full iPad when I started my own company earlier this year. My stack is Rails & React w/ GraphQL API. I was able to get the code editing/writing aspect of my workflow down, but not getting a local version of rails or react running or console aspect. I was hoping that tools like CodeSandbox would make it possible but I was pretty disappointed with every one of them.

As far as the editor goes, Textastic is the best IDE I've used (for iPhone & iPad), but my workflow was still considerably slower than on a Macbook or iMac. Working Copy was the best Git client and it works well with Textastic.

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Ian bradbury

+1 to Textastic - I've found Textastic to be a good editor.

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Roman Dekret

I’m just trying to setup Ruby on Rails development on my iPad, remote server is Synology NAS, puma’s running just fine, tests also OK, however I’m having difficult times easily syncing files between Textastic and SFTP (Synology) server, when developing.

Have you found easy way how to do this with Textastic?