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Feature Comparisons

Aptana RadRails just shipped their 1.0 release. Congratulations! One thing that spoiled things a bit for me is the Feature Comparison matrix they posted on their website. Along with the predictable green column for RadRails, they have red X's next to a lot of features in the NetBeans column. Features that definitely are there in NetBeans (and in some cases I would argue more so than in Aptana). If you're going to post a feature comparison I think it's a bit irresponsible to do so without actually checking what the competition offers. NetBeans is free (and no registration is even required), so it's easy to download to check, and if you don't even want to do that, just google "NetBeans Ruby" which will point right to our Wiki which has extensive feature lists listed right on the front page. (Update: Their feature matrix has been updated, and now recognizes that NetBeans does in fact offer RHTML editing, YAML editing, and XML editing.) There are however a number of errors remaining. Here are some of them. Yes, we have a JSON editor (and ours is free) Yes, we also have TextMate templates (templates for Ruby, RHTML) Yes, we have Extract Method (Details) Yes, we have Extract Constant (and we have Extract Variable and Extract Field as well, plus a number of other refactorings tied to the caret, listed in the RubyHints wiki page.) (Details) Yes, we have RHTML code completion. (Details) (This isn't really for the feature c...


Date: March, 13 2008
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/feature_comparisons


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