Is 4Gb of RAM enough in a MacBook Air for Rails development?

Question

Ruby on Rails

I want to get rid of Windows beech in favor of Mac. The choice fell on the relatively inexpensive MacBook Air MD761RU/A. Will such a device with 4Gb of RAM on board be enough for comfortable work and for comfortable rest?

Answer 1

If you write in vim'e without vagrant'a, music and browser - yes, but no.

Answer 2

With 8GB it will be much more comfortable.

Answer 3

Enough without problems, do not listen. But it is clear that if possible, it is better to take more memory. Although 4 gigs is enough for me, and for all the necessary backend (ruby-postgres) and for a virtual machine on a vagrant.

Answer 4

Ubuntu, athlon X II, 2GB DDR3, normal flight, everything is fine.
You checkers or go?

Answer 5

For the second year I have been using a MacBook Air MD760RU with 4GB of RAM. I often use: Rails Server+Console (without Vagrant), PostgreSQL, Sublime, iTerm, Photoshop CC, Chrome and Safari, Dash, HipChat, Skype. Most of this list is usually running in parallel, I also listen to music and all that. There are 10 tabs in Safari, 2-4 in Chrome. Subjectively, I do not see a shortage in the RAM.

Answer 6

What IDE will you use? If IDEA, Eclipse is not enough, I now have 4 gigabytes with swap disabled and there is not enough memory if I open a browser with a bunch of tabs in parallel. So look at the ability to add or replace with 8 gigs.