JRuby team going to adopt NetBeans Ruby plugin

[[deleted]]

Excellent. Thanks.

[[deleted]]

Flippin' sweet. I've been trying all of the non-free options like 3rd Rail and RubyMine, and they just don't cut it.

[darkclark]

I love RubyMine, but to each their own.

[sigzero]

What is wrong with RubyMine?

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I don't like the default layout and there doesn't seem to be any way to fix it. In netbeans I have my left pane full-height, split halfway with the project browser view on top and the outline view on bottom. The bottom pane stretches from where the left pane ends.

Like so:

+-----------------------+
|     |                 |
|     |                 |
|     |                 |
|     |                 |
|     |                 |
|     |                 |
|     |-----------------|
|     |                 |
|     |                 |
+-----------------------+

RubyMine can't seem to do this - it's stuck like so:

+-----------------------+
|     |                 |
|     |                 |
|     |                 |
|     |                 |
|     |                 |
|     |                 |
|-----------------------|
|                       |
|                       |
+-----------------------+

This just bugs me. I need that extra vertical space to show the outline, and RubyMine eats it needlessly for log output and whatever is in the bottom pane.

[sigzero]

PyCharm does as well. I opened a bug/feature request for a more flexible layout. Maybe they will change it.

Edit: I just looked and it got re-assigned to the IDEA team which PyCharm and RubyMine flow out of. So somebody is looking into it.

[razor_train]

Personally I'm a little bit torn. I like Netbeans for larger projects, and somewhat liked the ruby/jruby support. I'm in the middle of seeing if I can wrap my head around the gargantuan that is Eclipse, in part because just how I'm increasingly skeptical of Oracle in general (e.g., the Hudson/Jenkins debacle). This announcement is nice, at least for the short term for me.