Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans

Re:Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans by grandalf on Thursday January 27, 2011 @12:06PM (#2148552)

Is anybody actually using NetBeans for Ruby? I tried it very early in my exploration of Ruby, but quickly switched to gedit, and eventually emacs (using technomancy's emacs starter kit). Now that I use emacs, any other editor (particularly one that requires a hand on the mouse) feels like an RSI producing nightmare.

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Re:Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans by jamesbritt on Thursday January 27, 2011 @12:32PM (#2148671)

Netbeans has some very nice autocomplete, drop-down help, and refactoring and debugging stuff for Ruby, but I could never use it for serous code editing. I liked it for the WYSIWYG GUI editor when building some Ruby GUI apps, but much prefer vim for general coding (vim plugins for Netbeans notwithstanding).

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Re:Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans by Confusion on Thursday January 27, 2011 @03:39PM (#2149363)

I've used it for a while, but recently switched to RubyMine (with vi bindings). Much snappier, much more complete. Well worth $150.

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Re:Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans by barmstrong on Thursday January 27, 2011 @09:31PM (#2150546)

I use it daily at CarWoo.com

IDE's still have a few killer features over text editors that I miss when I don't have them.

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Re:Oracle discontinues Ruby/Rails support for NetBeans by webuiarchitect on Friday January 28, 2011 @06:43AM (#2151512)

You should seriously give Vim a try; I bet you would never go back to any IDE afterwards.

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