Reasons:
1.) To focus more on Java
2.) Because the low usage of the RoR NetBeans functionality didn't warrant the effort the team put into it.
Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans
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Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
The OSS community for Hudson (actually, CloudBees) is forking Hudson against Oracle's will. RoR support is just dropped due to various constraints and the community is actually encouraged to intervene: >However, we strongly encourage our community of NetBeans Ruby users and developers to volunteer to take on development of Ruby on Rails support for the NetBeans IDE. I'm curious if people will pick up RoR support or j…
How widely is NetBeans used by the RoR community? I'm (purely) guessing not very widely at all.
It's mentioned in the linked article: not much at all.
Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans
#73"Second: Although our Ruby support has historically been well received, based on existing low usage trends we are unable to justify the continued allocation of resources to support the feature."
That is really all they needed to point out (for me).
Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans
#74Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
The OSS community for Hudson (actually, CloudBees) is forking Hudson against Oracle's will. RoR support is just dropped due to various constraints and the community is actually encouraged to intervene: >However, we strongly encourage our community of NetBeans Ruby users and developers to volunteer to take on development of Ruby on Rails support for the NetBeans IDE. I'm curious if people will pick up RoR support or j…
How widely is NetBeans used by the RoR community? I'm (purely) guessing not very widely at all.
"Second: Although our Ruby support has historically been well received, based on existing low usage trends we are unable to justify the continued allocation of resources to support the feature."
I would say, not a whole lot according to their trend analysis.
Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans
#76Ugh, I had a feeling this was coming.
According to the NB guys it was "low usage". It makes sense to spin it out for the community to maintain if they want it.
Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mhh, it takes some time to get accustomed to vim but it's worth it. Just don't give up too early. I'm using XCode and vim ... XCode for iOS development and for everything else vim. Prior to that I used TextMate ... After a few weeks of constant vim usage it happens that I start typing vim commands into XCode (or into any other bigger text field). For example I regularly press a/i/o before I start typing the text. Or…
I hate to lead this further off-topic, but I'm trying to get into Vim myself -- how to you approach having multiple files open? Buffers? Tabs? Windows? The netbeans/visual studio/et. al. tabbed approach has always worked well for me, and I'm finding that to be my biggest stumbling block in switching to Vim.
I use splits and vertical splits. Tabs are an option too, but I usually don't leave that many files open at once.
For browsing files inside vim I use NERDTree (or if I remember the filename :e ). To quickly open the file's headerfile I use http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=31 - it takes only a :AS to open the file's header file (vice versa) in a new split. (Hint: Map a key to next split/window to switch fast between them. I remapped F1 for this purpose.)
If I really need to have many files open I just open a new tab/window in my terminal emulator. (There are also tabs in vim but I had not a chance to get used to the tab commands yet. gvim/macvim offer more abstract tab support - the tabs are real vim tabs but they are represented as UI tabs. So you can still yank/paste between them but have a more Visual Studio'ish feeling.)
Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans
#78RubyMine just tweeted: "We welcome all NetBeans users to start evaluating RubyMine as your new Ruby/Rails IDE! Expect some great news very soon on our pricing page!"
It is a good product and superior to NetBeans in many ways. The price was a little on the higher side though (but worth it anyways). If it comes down, I expect RubyMine to become the de-facto IDE for Ruby/Rails.
Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mhh, it takes some time to get accustomed to vim but it's worth it. Just don't give up too early. I'm using XCode and vim ... XCode for iOS development and for everything else vim. Prior to that I used TextMate ... After a few weeks of constant vim usage it happens that I start typing vim commands into XCode (or into any other bigger text field). For example I regularly press a/i/o before I start typing the text. Or…
I hate to lead this further off-topic, but I'm trying to get into Vim myself -- how to you approach having multiple files open? Buffers? Tabs? Windows? The netbeans/visual studio/et. al. tabbed approach has always worked well for me, and I'm finding that to be my biggest stumbling block in switching to Vim.
Try the MiniBufExplorer plugin. It gives you a list of all open files in a different buffer, and you can switch to any of them by just moving into that buffer and pressing enter while on the filename.
Re: Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
The OSS community for Hudson (actually, CloudBees) is forking Hudson against Oracle's will. RoR support is just dropped due to various constraints and the community is actually encouraged to intervene: >However, we strongly encourage our community of NetBeans Ruby users and developers to volunteer to take on development of Ruby on Rails support for the NetBeans IDE. I'm curious if people will pick up RoR support or j…
How widely is NetBeans used by the RoR community? I'm (purely) guessing not very widely at all.
NetBeans was my primary editor/IDE for Ruby till a couple of weeks back when I started evaluating RubyMine.