A little while ago I heard that Sun is developing a Ruby plugin for NetBeans 6.0, which is supposed to be slightly better than the Eclipse plugin. So I downloaded NetBeans 6.0 (it’s currently in development, so I downloaded the daily snapshop), and the installed the Ruby plugin via the Plugin Update Site. The Ruby plugin seems to be pretty good. I haven’t found in features that blow me away yet, but I haven’t found anything that I don’t like about it. The syntax highlighting is good, and it does a bit of code completion by adding “end” when you start a block.
I could be wrong but NetBeans 6.0 seems to be a bit faster than 5.5. So maybe I’ll start using it more. I liked Eclipse for it’s refactoring, and plugin for multiple language support–but NetBeans seems to be heading in the same direction. The Swing GUI builder is of course better than Eclipse’s visual editor.
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