An Exploration of Features in the NetBeans Ruby IDE
posted Tuesday, 19 February 2008
| The NetBeans IDE has become the IDE for Ruby developers. Roman Strobl highlights why and how a lot of hardwork has produced some spectacular Ruby IDE-centric features. In the third part of a three part series, Roman graphically shows some of the features such as how to use hints and quick fixes. This hints/quick fixes include deprecation warnings, reformat light bulbs, variable reuse, converting do/end bocks, code style issues, controller missing view, quick surround with code, extract methods and much more. He also shows how NetBeans supports color themes, database-related tooling, experimental support for Rspec, support for other editors such as Vi & Emacs. NetBeans has other extra plugins which he points out spell checking, rectangular selection, whitespace highlight, quick file chooser and more. In part 1 of the series a number of technologies are shown off - code completion, graphical Ruby debugger, Ruby refactoring and quick fixes. In part 2 of the series, the article shows how Ruby on Rails is supported in NetBeans, a number of editing features, the Gem Manager, language options (Ruby and jRuby), unit testing and using the console. | | |
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