By bloid
via blog.sidu.in
Published: Nov 08 2007 / 12:16
I'd been doing my Ruby work in Jetbrains' IntelliJ 6 using the open source IntelliJ Ruby Plugin. Frankly, it wasn't a patch on developing Java or C# on any half-way decent IDE, including Visual Studio, which just barely manages the half-way decent mark. The plugin could do syntax highlighting correctly most of the time - you occasionally had to add round braces to clarify stuff or it would get confused - and it could run tests. But it couldn't run just one single test in a suite. If you hit the shortcut for run in a test file, it would run all tests. How annoying is that? It also had a few helper menus to do stuff like script/generate and things of that sort. That pretty much summed up its features.
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vitaliel replied ago:
Jetbrains' IntelliJ 7 with ruby plugin is slow like hell, 6.0 was better. On my laptop with 1Gb RAM and 1.7Ghz CPU it is impossible to edit a ruby file that has >700 lines. This is why I switched to NetBeans 6. It also has a ruby plugin and it is faster. What I miss from Idea is running a single test method, but I hope NB devs will add this feature soon.
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