> Honest question: Are their refactoring IDEs for Ruby, Python, or other dynamically typed languages?
Yep, Intellij IDEA does it pretty well, or one can get their language of choice individually as WebStorm (JavaScript/NodeJS), PHPStorm (Webstorm + PHP), PyCharm (Python + Webstorm) or RubyMine (Ruby + Webstorm).
The refactoring and type inferring abilities for dynamic languages in each are pretty amazing. Types can also be inferred by docblocks and return types as well in each IDE for code analysis to avoid silly mistakes. That, along with refactoring has saved me tons of time and a reason to use a full IDE over a more lightweight editor. They also have an open source version of the Python IDE if you want to try it out.
Yep, Intellij IDEA does it pretty well, or one can get their language of choice individually as WebStorm (JavaScript/NodeJS), PHPStorm (Webstorm + PHP), PyCharm (Python + Webstorm) or RubyMine (Ruby + Webstorm).
The refactoring and type inferring abilities for dynamic languages in each are pretty amazing. Types can also be inferred by docblocks and return types as well in each IDE for code analysis to avoid silly mistakes. That, along with refactoring has saved me tons of time and a reason to use a full IDE over a more lightweight editor. They also have an open source version of the Python IDE if you want to try it out.