…having used many editors in the past (from full blown IDEs like Eclipse and NetBeans, to simpler editors like TextMate), I've found my perfect match. It's ubiquity and openness are winners (I'd be disheartened right now if I was using abandonware like TextMate) and the modal editing is exactly right for how I work (I wish every text area had modal editing!)
How have I tailored Vim setup?
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…Eclipse Memory Analysis Tool include features for detecting leaks; VisualVM and NetBeans both allow you to turn on allocation tracing, to show where in your code all those objects are being created. There's tools for monitoring live GC behavior, and many of these tools even allow you to dig into a running heap and modify live objects . If you can dream it, there's a tool that can do it. And you get all that for free by using JRuby.
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As I've mentioned before , I use Netbeans with the jVi plugin. It's enough IDE to improve my productivity without being so much that I feel overwhelmed. Using the jVi plugin makes a Vim fanatic like me feel right at home.
Just in case it's helpful, here's my NetBeans setup (in outline form): Setup NetBeans:
Downloaded the Ruby pack.
It's a shell script. Run it as root. Don't install GlassFish.
It installs to /usr/local/netbeans-6.8.
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…still works fine ( in Ruby 1.9, don't try this in 1.8 ), but if you're using Netbeans, this syntax is way too crazy for it and it will barf all over itself. This syntax is an interesting curiosity, but I recommend sticking to plain old lambda for your own sanity ( especially if you're using Netbeans ) and that of everyone else who has to read your code later.
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Even if you're totally sold on Rake, you still need to know that software like NetBeans expects to see a build.xml file, so it can interact with your project. Having a small shim like the one above makes you play nice with any tools that expect Ant.
This is the simplest way to call Rake from Ant, but the next option may suit your needs better...
Allow Rake Tasks to be Imported as Callable Ant Targets
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So you're working happily with your multiple Rubies in the shell and then you crack open Netbeans for some of the more complex Ruby editing and find that none of your rvm-managed Ruby installation are there and there doesn't seem to be any way to get them into Netbeans . Normally you would go to Tools->Ruby Platforms under Netbeans to add new Ruby versions:
The easiest thing to do is to autodetect platforms …
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NetBeans IDE version 6.8 has been released, Sun Microsystems' newest flagship programming environment. Primarily targeted at Java programmers, NetBeans also sports a very polished IDE for Ruby on Rails developers.
New NetBeans 6.8 features and improvements for Ruby on Rails include:
Upgraded bundled JRuby to 1.4
Ruby 1.9 debugging support
Run/Debug File with arguments
Support for running/debugging files that are not part of a project
Improved handling of inherited methods in rename refactoring
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…big refactoring with confidence. That said, IDE's like Rubymine and Netbeans have come a long way in helping ease the pain of big refactorings and the productivity of Ruby far outweighs the additional effort of refactoring.
Satish>> How was experience of taking part in the Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies ( RPCFN)?
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Last of all, there was one more incredibly esoteric hack that was necessary. If you using xmonad + NetBeans + jVi, then using ":w" to save your file will cause NetBeans to lock up. Weird, I know. The workaround is to edit your jVi preferences to tell jVi not to handle Control-s, but rather to pass it to the IDE. That way, you can use Control-s to save your file instead of using ":w".
Make sure to read the guided tour and check the xmonad FAQ if you …
…wishy-washy person when it comes to my editing environment, so I switch from TextMate to NetBeans often. It's an excellent IDE for multiple languages, and gets better with every release. If I have to work on anything that isn 't Ruby, I usually use this. If it felt a little snappier and had a little better usability, I'd probably use this for all my code.
Git and GitX . Git's my version control system of choice. I mainly use it from the command line, but …
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