If you love automation why is your development environment manual? sidekicksrc.com · Archived on 7 Jun 2013 · Originally posted on Pinboard

The idea is our editor, tools etc will all live on a virtual machine, in which we’ll also setup our application environment - databases, services etc. We can then develop features using the precise environment we have in production, reusing the production scripts.

Another data point. Not sure I agree with editing in the VM, though.