Ruby Screenshot of the Week #7

Since I cheated last week, I'll make up for it by posting several screenshots this week. First: The continuous builds on deadlock.nbextras.org are back up and running. One of the things you'll find there is a Ruby-only slimmed down version of NetBeans. This might be attractive for those of you who are used to editing Ruby and think of IDEs as overkill. The download is not tiny, but that's because it includes a full installation of JRuby as well as Ruby On Rails and all its supporting libraries. Perhaps we can create a configuration which doesn't JRuby and Rails, since the tool is also perfectly happy to use any existing installations of Ruby and Rails you might point it at. The configuration is experimental, so menu items etc. might not always be ordered correctly. But if you're a Ruby-only programmer, you'll find it less crowded than the full-featured IDE, and a faster download. I've tried to improve the Rails support lately, since I've gotten lots of feedback from developers using NetBeans+Ruby with Rails. Rails projects now have a "Rake Target" action, which is a pull right menu. The pull right shows, hierarchically, all the rake targets available for the project. The target descriptions, if any, are shown as tooltips. Recently executed targets are listed before the hierarchical list of available targets. (Determining the set of targets for the UI is expensive, so it is not kept up to d...

Date: March, 28 2007
Url: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/ruby_screenshot_of_the_week6

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