Ruby Screenshot of the Week #28: Unit Testing, and Color Themes

NetBeans 6.1 has been out for a while, so we're working full steam ahead on NetBeans 6.5. There are a number of new features in the trunk, and I'll show a couple of them in this post. First of all though - if you have found ERB or RHTML file editing slow in NetBeans 6.1, please try NetBeans 6.5. There was a performance bug where if you have a lot of JavaScript files in your public/javascript folder, RHTML editing gets really slow. A fix for this will be released, but it didn't make it into Patch 1 so it will be addressed in patch 2. But the daily builds of NetBeans 6.5 has the fix, so if this bug is affecting you, please try the dailies instead. And as a side benefit, you'll be able to access the following features: New Unit Test Runner! Erno Mononen has written a new Test Runner UI. In 6.1, unit tests were just run and the normal output shown in the Output Window with some hyperlinks. In the new dedicated test runner, you get something similar to the JUnit window we've had for a file for Java. (Click on image for full size) Be sure to run your test classes as tests (e.g. use Ctrl/Command F6 rather than Shift F6) such that the IDE will run your classes under the testing GUI. This works not just for Test::Unit but for RSpec as well. You can get more details about this in Erno's blog entry, and if you run into issues, please let us know. The Aloha Color Theme Mike McKinney has created a really nice dark color th...

Date: May, 30 2008
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/ruby_screenshot_of_the_week26

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