Archive for April, 2006

Execute Ruby Tests in IntelliJ IDEA

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

A nice tip on how to run Ruby tests in IntelliJ IDEA was posted by Jay Fields at his blog. The tip is based on the External Tools functionality that was already described in one of the previous posts on this blog (open a file system view for the current file).

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JBoss Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Now the blog has one more category - “plugins”. This category will collect short overviews of the most interesting and useful plugins for IntelliJ IDEA. So, if you know about the one - request a tip using the small form on a side-bar to the right or send your own overview to us.

The first plugin presented here is JBoss plugin created by Martin Fuhrer. The plugin provides integration with JBoss 3.2 and 4.0 application servers. It allows configuring JBoss application servers for deploying, running and debugging web- and enterprise applications directly from IntelliJ IDEA.
The plugin is free and available through IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Manager.

Martin also created a set of nice live tutorials (Flash demos) that you can find at http://www.fuhrer.com/en/jbossplugin/index.html.

Although demos are created in IntelliJ IDEA 4.5, the plugin is also available for version 5.1 and is being updated for the forthcoming 6.0 release.

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User experience: IntelliJ IDEA 5.1 vs NetBeans 5.0

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

A set of reviews that compare two Java IDE’s: IntelliJ IDEA 5.1 and NetBeans 5.0. The author is not a professional reviewer, but a real Java developer with the real tasks and work to do. Each review is presented as a “streetfight round”.
Looks like IntelliJ IDEA wins.
Round 6, Round 5, Round 4, Round 3, Round 2, Round 1

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