The IntelliJ guys have created a dedicated Ruby IDE.

http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/index.html

by humanlever • 18 years ago

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henning• 18 years ago

If OS X aesthetes can get used to that Swing-based editor type engine, this could be, like, kind of a big deal.

st3fan2• 18 years ago

There is an OS X Look & Feel.

einarvollset• 18 years ago

Just playing with it now - the code completion feature rules. It's the one thing I missed from the old IntelliJ.

Some suckiness:

- No REPL that I can see. Surely an irb prompt is lurking there somewhere? - Ugly typography. TextMate spoiled me on getting my code to look good even when it didn't do the right thing

quellhorst• 18 years ago

It takes a long time to load your project for the first time and doesn't support HAML.

jamesbritt3• 18 years ago

"... and doesn't support HAML."

I'm pretty sure that's a feature.

hypermatt• 18 years ago

Great! Now I have one more reason to not use HAML

snprbob863• 18 years ago

JetBrains builds fantastic stuff. IntelliJ is the only way to write Java and Resharper is a requirement for any real C# work. I'm not doing any Ruby work, but this does look cool. I'll assume they build the back-end stuff in a general way for dynamic languages and keep my fingers crossed for Python and Javascript support someday :-)

bdittmer3• 18 years ago

It's really hard to stress how much IDEA blows eclipse, netbeans, etc. out of the water when it comes to Java development.

snprbob863• 18 years ago

Agreed. And once you learn to use refactoring effectively, you start to really appreciate static typing and generally just want to give the JetBrains team a real big hug.

babul• 18 years ago

It is my favourite Java editor, but is expensive compared to the others which are free. However, you get what you pay for.

petercooper• 18 years ago

What's the equivalent of "Slashdotted" for Hacker News? Whatever it is, we appear to have done that to it. "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" :(

humanlever• 18 years ago

Graveled?

waldrews• 18 years ago

Well, it is Ruby we're talking about - who's surprised it doesn't scale?

wayne• 18 years ago

Hacked?

bdittmer3• 18 years ago

Hrmm...I was under the impression all new language support (JS, Flex, Ruby, etc.) would be rolled into IDEA in the form of a new plugin architecture that was to be release with v8. This is an interesting development indeed.

jrockway• 18 years ago

I like how they call guessing the type of a variable via flaky heuristics "type inference". Methinks they have spent a bit too much time reading programming reddit.

bkudria• 18 years ago

Funny, cause Ruby variables aren't typed. (The values are.)

Herring2• 18 years ago

Anyone else having trouble finding java on ubuntu?

jm4• 18 years ago

Nope. It's where it's always been: http://java.sun.com/

jamesbritt3• 18 years ago

Tried apt-get?

Herring2• 18 years ago

It's already installed. Rubymine won't start, it keeps complaining "No JDK found to run RubyMine. Please validate either IDEA_JDK or JDK_HOME points to valid JDK installation"

I've tried messing with those variables in the script to point to the install path, but I must be missing something. Most often the error changes to "Error occurred during initialization of VM. Could not find agent library on the library path or in the local directory: yjpagent"

sker• 18 years ago

Why do the fonts look so ugly? Doesn't it use ClearType or something?

ujeezy• 18 years ago

Anyone have luck getting the vim plugin (IdeaVIM) installed?

nanijoe• 18 years ago

Is this thing free? I get a prompt asking for a license key when I try to run it

The IntelliJ guys have created a dedicated Ruby IDE.

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