JetBrains RubyMine Blog

2.0.1 — first version in 2010. I like these small numbers and digits surprises!

But, to the point. We’ve just made RubyMine 2.0.1 available and hope you will enjoy it.

This is the minor update with some performance improvements, stability and other fixes. We’ve ensured that RubyMine works well with the latest Ruby on Rails (v.2.3.5) and Cucumber (v.0.5.x and later).

Among other fixes:

• fixed plugin repository access from RubyMine UI (IDE Settings | Plugins)
• fixed Extract Superclass refactoring
• added support for ‘IDEA Server’ plugin that allows sharing IDE configuration between RubyMine installed on different computers

But we could not resist to make something new as well:

• added Bundler support

See complete list of fixes in RubyMine issue tracker and go download RubyMine 2.0.1.

Develop with pleasure in 2010 with RubyMine 2.0.1
-JetBrains RubyMine Team

Words are not always important. See the list of changes and download RubyMine 2.0.1 RC2

• RubyMine 2.0.1 RC2 for Mac OS X
• RubyMine 2.0.1 RC2 for Windows
• RubyMine 2.0.1 RC2 for Linux

As always, we are listening for your feedback.
Tell us the build is good and we’ll wrap up a nice Christmas present for you! BTW, TeamCity team just did it!

-JetBrains RubyMine Team

It’s not that we just celebrated after the 2.0 release. We have also been listening carefully for your feedback and making some changes. Apart from our own changes, there’s been a number of improvements in the IntelliJ platform, so we think RubyMine 2.0.1 is quite ready.

Some major fixes and changes are:

• fixed plugin repository access from RubyMine UI
• fixed Extract Superclass refactoring
• added support for ‘IDEA Server’ plugin that allows sharing settings between installations of IntelliJ Platform based products used by the same developer on different computers
• added Bundler support

see other fixes in issue tracker

Download RubyMine 2.0.1 RC

• RubyMine 2.0.1 RC for Mac OS X
• RubyMine 2.0.1 RC for Windows
• RubyMine 2.0.1 RC for Linux

Thanks for all your reports! And let us know your impression.

JetBrains RubyMine Team

Update: it appears this RubyMine build is not working with the ‘Idea Server’ plugin just yet. We’ll correct it by the 2.0.1 release. Our apologies.

Our neighbour IntelliJ IDEA team is now celebrating the release of IntelliJ IDEA 9, the best environment for polyglot programming and the most intelligent Java IDE, that also includes a free community edition now.

Being build on the same platform, RubyMine shares a lot of functionality with IntelliJ IDEA, and we thank the IntelliJ platform team for all the efforts and congratulate the whole team with this important milestone.

If you are developing with Ruby inside IntelliJ IDEA using the Ruby plugin, the updated plugin is available and is compatible with IntelliJ IDEA 9. You can install it from the IDE UI (IDE Settings | Plugins).

See the impressive list of what’s new in IntelliJ IDEA 9.

RubyMine update is coming soon too. Stay tuned for updates!

Develop with pleasure!
JetBrains Team

Well, its been a while since the RubyEnRails conference in Amsterdam. It was a pleasure to be there, meet lots of people and talk about RubyMine. We thank everyone who participated in our small lottery and announce the 10 winners who receive free RubyMine licenses:

• António Gaspar
• António Marques
• Eugene Markine
• Harmen Haan
• James Tan
• José Duarte
• Mariusz Lusiak
• Matias Korhonen
• Nur Sah Ketene
• Rob van Dijk

Your licenses should be waiting for you in your inboxes!

See you at new events around the world
-JetBrains RubyMine Team

Skills Matter, Europe’s leading Open Source and Agile event organiser, has scheduled some exciting conferences in London, UK.

Since JetBrains is good friends with Skills Matter, JetBrains community members enjoy 25% off regular ticket price. When we say “JetBrains community members”, we mean all of you!

To qualify for this special community discount, please quote SM1745-623015-J6B in the Promo Code field when registering for a conference.

RubyMine users may be specifically interested in attending a 1-day Ruby on Rails eXchange conference to be held on December 3rd. Featured speakers include Amy Hoy, Jason Davies, Frederic Cheung, Sven Fuchs, David Black, and Andrew Chalkley. RubyMine team will attend as well! Register now!

Ruby on Rails eXchange will take place during Ruby Bootcamp, a 5-day event (November 30th to December 4th.) If you’re new (or relatively new) to Ruby, you might consider taking part. And remember: our 25% discount covers the bootcamp as well!

Other upcoming Skills Matter conferences include:

• Groovy & Grails eXchange (2 days), December 9 & 10.
• Agile Specifications, BDD and Testing eXchange (1 day), November 27th.
• Functional Programming eXchange (1 day), December 7th.
• Droidcon (1 day), December 2nd.
• Open Source in Finance eXchange (1 day), December 15th.

Follow conference news on http://twitter.com/skillsmatter

We just mined RubyMine 2.0 — go and grab it!

This is an important step as with this new version RubyMine bridges the previous gaps in terms of supported frameworks and tools. The IDE now does a great job and meets the needs of most Ruby and Rails developers.

The key changes are:

• Support for Ruby 1.9 and the latest Ruby on Rails framework
• Advanced refactorings for Ruby code with support for Rails project specifics
• Improved Ruby code analysis and new code duplicates detection routine
• Rails internationalization (i18n) support with coding assistance
• Specific assistance for creating and running Cucumber test scenarios and Shoulda tests

Compared with the previous version, RubyMine 2.0 is based on a newer IntelliJ Platform version, which brings many general improvements to the IDE, such as: improved version control systems support, particularly, Git; integrated spell checker, and many others.

So, here is the plan for you:

1. Read what’s new in RubyMine 2.0
2. Download RubyMine 2.0
3. Send us your feedback for this new version.

And for us:

1. plan the new versions
2. Have a party!
3. Plan the new versions

Yours truly,
The RubyMine Team

We’re glad to announce the availability of RubyMine 2.0 Release Candidate 2. Since the previous RC build, we’ve continued our work on improving the performance of RubyMine, fixed several major performance problems and significantly reduced the memory consumption and GC overhead.

Feel free to try the new RC build and file bug reports in the RubyMine issue tracker if you run into any problems.

YAY! We’re almost there! We’ve just uploaded the Release Candidate for RubyMine 2.0.

Go and get it — http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/nextversion.

Thanks to all the reports from Beta users, there’s quite many changes that make this build a real candidate.

What this means? This means the release is very close and any day now the current 20% off price will turn into the standard one. If you still not made up your mind about RubyMine, tell at our forum what makes you hesitate.

Important: This build does not have a license key bundled, so you need to get evaluation key to use it. If you can’t get it because you had requested it before, just drop us a line and we’ll send you a new key. RubyMine 1.x key will work, of course.

And something new to finish this up. We’ve added bundled “quick-lists” for VCS operations. You can use them for quick access to most of version control options. Try them — ⌃V/Alt+BackQuote.

The list for Git differs from other VCSes. Some screenshots below:
No VCS configured:

Download RubyMine 2.0 Release Candidate!

We at JetBrains love competition. This is what usually produces something worthy. We, from time to time, run our own contests and also support other developer competitions, when possible.

One such event that is running right now is CodeRack, a rack middleware coding contest for Ruby programmers. A good number of entries has been submitted already, so it is becoming an intriguing challenge. Worth mentioning that the prizes seem quite interesting too.

Entries are accepted up to November 15th, so there’s still time if you decide to participate.

Good luck!