IntelliJ IDEA 7 with Ruby on Rails support
Posted by David October 17, 2007 @ 02:00 PM
IntelliJ IDEA has long been regarded as one of the best IDEs for Java development. With the 7.0 release they’ve followed Netbeans and Eclipse by offering significant support for Ruby on Rails alongside the Java tooling. They have a neat video tutorial showing off the Rails features.
I’m sticking with Netbeans.
In my opinion, today netbans looks more mature for ror development.
but its slow like hell.
these days with dual cores, performance is not a big issue. it performs fine on my T61
I have IntelliJ a spin, its very very nice for a IDE for Rails.
Nothing wrong with choice, good to see alot of different options out there. I prefer the TextMate/Terminal route myself but I respect there are more options out there.
According to me VIM rocks at anytime. I have used NetBeans anad Idea before… In my opinion still Eclipse with RadRails(Aptana) is better than those two as an IDE. But if you are used to VIM… there is no necessity of an IDE.. as most of things.. VIM provides… are simply worth. No idea about textmate.
surely the big plus for ide’s is the graphical debugger.
I like the textmate approach too, but find debugger still a bit of a PITA
my 2c (more like 1c =)
Typically, a full blown IDE is somewhat unnecessary for me, especially with rails projects. I like textmate, and since I use linux primarily I found that jEdit is a nice replacement. Combined with autotest (from the ZenTest package), and some excellent plugins (The autosnippets plugin, and the sidekick parser) I find that jEdit really does a good job. I’ll certainly give IntelliJ a shot though.
It is also good to note that there is a new environment based on Borland eclipse which developed 3rdRail </ a>, to my way of thinking after use in his trial version is not much difference with the free versions, I do not see why pay so much money when you particularly one that is free. And I think now the best of them is Netbeans 6.0, en verdad es muy bueno.. good.
NetBeans 6.0 has some quite impressive Ruby/Rails features, but it’s a hog with 512 Mb of RAM, barely usable with 1 Gb, so much for “agile”...
If IntellIDEA is somewhat like NetBeans, you can count me out ‘till my next PC.
So, for the time being, I second jEdit for Rails development under GNU/Linux.
I tried TextMate and it didn’t work well for me, but Komodo Edit has been a much better experience. The vi key bindings were a big plus.
It’s good to see support by so many vendors for Rails. All this support is lowering the barrier for entry to the Rails world. Very nice.