Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

I'm wondering how come Oracle hasn't kill NetBeans yet? Considering the effort they've put into Eclipse and the aholes they are this seems a logical move.

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by epochwolf » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 3:56 PM UTC

I've only found NetBeans useful under Windows. I've had a number of interface problems on Linux and OSX that make it unusable. (Dialogs showing up blank all the time and other problems)

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by mgkimsal » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 3:58 PM UTC

mjuhl24 wrote: post #3

Any suggestions on an alternative IDE?

http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/

Eclipse also has support for Ruby, no?

Sort of sad to see this happen, but I'd prefer they keep netbeans going and streamline it to be really good at a few things, rather than being 'ok' at lots of stuff.

Ruby doesn't really fit with Oracle's offerings, although PHP doesn't either. Perhaps PHP support will be dropped in the future?

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Post by bowmande » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 3:59 PM UTC

mjuhl24 wrote: post #3

Any suggestions on an alternative IDE?

I use TextMate, but have been trying to make the switch to vim.

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 3:59 PM UTC

mjuhl24 wrote: post #3

Any suggestions on an alternative IDE?

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