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Ruby / Rails IDE Comparison : Idea, Netbeans, RadRails « The Nameless One

You’ll find an exhaustive list of features for : NetBeans and Idea (and 0.1.1 and RoadMap, official listing from Jetbrains with some screenshot) .

The version I’ll be testing here are :

• Idea 6.0 (Support for Idea Selena (future 7.0) is in the pipes) with Ruby Plugin 0.1.1.
• NetBeans 6 Daily Snapshot (I started with version 20070211 up to 20070221). For the moment Ruby support is only available for early adopters in the snapshot releases. It was released lately as 6.0 Milestone 7 (and you’ll wait for M8 for some more features) .
• I firstly wanted to use RadRails 0.7.2 Standalone version (I blogged about the install for amd64) or even the RadRails snapshot to avoid having the overbloated Eclipse Environment but I couldn’t get the latest RDT Plugin (with Refactoring module) to work with it, so the tests would have been biased as there have been a lot of new features developed in RadRails and RDT Ruby Plugins. So I’ll be using Eclipse 3.2.1 with RDT Snapshot Plugin (in my case 0.8.0.702111959NGT) and RadRails Plugin 0.7.2

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Early Access Lesson: Learning Swing with the NetBeans IDE

This blog entry is our first "Early Access" document. It is a work in progress… one that is currently up for technical review by engineering. As part of our early access initiative, we are allowing you, the reader, to comment on the document as we are writing it. We are still evaluating whether or not this approach will actually provide us with useful feedback; if you are reading this and would like to see more lessons posted as "works in progress", then leave us a comment! This new lesson is an introduction to Swing using the NetBeans IDE. Feel free to comment on what you like, or what you would change, or whether or not you think the information is useful.

This early access program is a bit of an experiment for us, so go ahead and tell us what you think!