{"id":667,"date":"2007-03-05T15:55:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/03\/05\/getting-public-about-ruby-in-netbeans\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T15:55:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T21:55:25","slug":"getting-public-about-ruby-in-netbeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/03\/05\/getting-public-about-ruby-in-netbeans\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Public about Ruby in NetBeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Roumen, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/roumen\/entry\/two_demos_jruby_on_rails\">you can see two demos of Ruby support in NetBeans<\/a>. It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve talked about the subject of Ruby and IDEs, but I&#8217;ve spoken with Java people about Ruby and Java frequently.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly are two comments from developers when I asked them what they thought about the screencasts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From Robert Brook <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/robertbrook\/statuses\/5860712\">in Twitter<\/a>: &#8220;daily builds still flakey but lighter than eclipse. could use more polish, but pointing the right way.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Charles &#8220;cowboyd&#8221; Lowell in <a href=\"irc:\/\/irc.freenode.net#drunkandretired\">#drunkandretired<\/a>: &#8220;certainly looks better that <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2006\/01\/19\/eclips-ing-ruby\/\">RDT<\/a>&#8230;with ruby support like this, it&#8217;s definitely worth me giving the java support another try.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both are positive, but Charles&#8217; comments intrigued me the most. For some dumb reason I hadn&#8217;t thought of a Ruby IDE as a honey-pot to draw in Java developers who want Ruby support. I&#8217;d wager that most developers want <i>one<\/i> IDE as much as possible. Switching editors is rough going, though, so many people will stick with what they have unless a killer feature comes along.<\/p>\n<p>Updating myself on RDT, it looks like they&#8217;ll have <a href=\"http:\/\/cwilliams.textdriven.com\/articles\/2007\/02\/06\/rdt-gets-refactoring-support\">refacorting in their main release (<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/rubyeclipse.mktec.com\/cgi-bin\/trac.py\/milestone\/0.9.0\">0.9.0<\/a>) soon. That&#8217;ll be very interesting to see. And it&#8217;ll be interesting to see what roadmapping  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radrails.org\/blog\/2007\/3\/5\/radrails-future_1173078407\">RadRails does at EclipseCon this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping away from the implicit project\/vendor-sports &#8212; and apologies for whoever I&#8217;ve left out <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/09\/07\/el-rey-de-caf\/\">this time<\/a> &#8212; I&#8217;m happy to see more support from everyone for Ruby IDEs and mixing the Ruby and Java worlds. To me, dynamic languages + Java is the way forward.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/java\" rel=\"tag\">java<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ruby\" rel=\"tag\">ruby<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/rdt\" rel=\"tag\">rdt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/radrails\" rel=\"tag\">radrails<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/eclipse\" rel=\"tag\">eclipse<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/redmonkclients\" rel=\"tag\">redmonkclients<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/netbeans\" rel=\"tag\">netbeans<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ide\" rel=\"tag\">ide<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update on Ruby support in IDEs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,15,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development-tools","category-java","category-open-source","category-programming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}