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Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by yock »

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/

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by killedbydeath »

mjuhl24 wrote: post #3

Any suggestions on an alternative IDE?

Komodo Edit is a nice and very configurable light-weight editor (free): http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit A more functional IDE (paid): http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide

I have been using Komodo for a number of languages on a number of platforms.

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by melling »

mjuhl24 wrote: post #3

Any suggestions on an alternative IDE?

Netbeans is open source. The plugin is open source. Oracle is simply trying to cut projects where they have no direct or indirect benefit. I'm sure they would be happy if someone else maintained the plugin. Netbeans has a growing community of plugin developers. There is a community Clojure plugin, for example:

http://www.enclojure.org

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by mechanical_fish »

davidw wrote: post #11
mjuhl24 wrote: post #3

Any suggestions on an alternative IDE?

Emacs + various extensions and goodies.

This is the killer feature of tools like emacs and vi: Your vendor cannot abandon you and the code has a well-proven capability to be ported to just about any platform.

Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

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Post by mgkimsal »

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've found netbeans to be faster on windows, certainly. Not had any of the issues you mention on OSX - just general 'java is slow' issues (especially when compared to same version of nb on windows).

On Linux, I got tired of Eclipse-based Java apps not working properly - blank windows, as you mentioned being a primary issue.

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