Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans • Hacker News Board

This morning I went looking for a new IDE to replace Netbeans/Aptana and found VIM + Janus (https://github.com/carlhuda/janus). Janus is a collection of customizations and plugins that make VIM look & feel almost like a GUI IDE.

Highly recommended!

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by TwoSheds » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 4:16 PM UTC

NetBeans is open source. At least OpenOffice and Hudson have already been forked. Are there any obstacles (name has to be changed of course) for forking this project as well?

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 4:20 PM UTC

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Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by subbu » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 4:20 PM UTC

epochwolf wrote: post #7

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)

I have used NetBeans both on Windows as well as on Ubuntu. I haven't noticed slowness on Ubuntu (with 4GB RAM) apart from the loading time. I have switched to VIM since then and haven't used NetBeans in the recent months though.

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by messel » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 4:22 PM UTC

mjuhl24 wrote: post #3

Any suggestions on an alternative IDE?

If you're on Mac OS X or can run a VM, TextMate is a wonderful project editor. It was the reason I switched over to Mac for development. It does everything I want for development, and gets out of the way for everything I don't want. It'll take a little to get used to.

Autoformatting code is controlled under bundles (format all, re-indent text).

Go to definition/declaration is functionally done with go to symbol.

There's support for code completion but I haven't used it much.

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by _pius » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 4:24 PM UTC

Why do people use NetBeans for Rails?

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by messel » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 4:24 PM UTC

yock wrote: post #13

mjuhl24 wrote: post #3

Any suggestions on an alternative IDE?

RadRails and Redmine are going to be the closest to the Netbeans Ruby support, others have mentioned those already. Something closer to the heart of many Ruby developers is Redcar. It's a text editor installed as a Ruby gem generally meant to replicate Textmate functionality. http://redcareditor.com/

I'd love to see a cross platform variant, influenced by TextMate's design. I tried out redcar last year but it wasn't ready for primetime then. I may be confusing redcar with one of many other editors I tried out last year, I'll give it another look.

update it was redcar that I used last year, and it has improved quickly (kudos to the project team). That's a great sign. Kinda psyched to have something textmate-ish on ubuntu! The themes are pretty hot, and the bundles are chock full of languages.

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by whynotmatt » Thu, Jan 27, 2011, 4:27 PM UTC

I use Netbeans for java and used it when I started working with Ruby. But I switched to RubyMine and really enjoy it. It took me a while to convince myself to pay for an IDE after previously using Netbeans and Eclipse, but the cost isn't high and it has really made me speed up my ruby work.