JetBrains RubyMine Blog

We, software developing kind, are very demanding to customization abilities of the tools we use daily. There is almost no way a vendor can create a UI that will please all. And RubyMine, being a complex tool with lots of functionality, offers users a wide variety of options to customize and tweak the IDE. This includes keymaps, editor settings, custom color schemes for the editor, and many other appearance and user experience options.

In this 2-minute video we will demo some of the options that many will find useful.
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We’d like to know what else you want to see in RubyMine Tipcast series. Please let us know in the comments.

May all your wishes come true in the next year! And if some of them are about RubyMine — just let us know

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

-JetBrains Team

RubyMine team has been on the road lately visiting some cool Ruby/Rails events:

1. RubyConf’09: this was a great one, with lots of interesting talks and ideas around the Ruby development. Make sure you seen Gregg Pollack’s RubyConf in 22 mins video as well as other videos from this conference.

2. RoR eXchange: organized by Skills Matters company this conference was both interesting and enjoyable. We talked to attendees about RubyMine and gave away 5 RubyMine licenses for the raffle.

While staying in San Francisco and London we had a chance to visit some of the customers that use RubyMine, such as Pivotal Labs, Twitter and ThoughtWorks. We’ve been demoing some new RubyMine stuff, showing our new Projects and sharing ideas. A very nice addition to conferences!

If you know of an interesting Ruby community event in your area give us a shout! We’re always happy to meet face-to-face.

Develop with pleasure!
JetBrains RubyMine 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 enjoyed being at conferences!

So, in the end of the next week we are going to Berlin to attend the RailsWayCon event. It promises to be an interesting one with lots of Rails people attending. The conference is May 25-27 and takes place in Berliner Congress Center.

We will be exhibiting to be able to talk to as many people as possible. So, we hope to see you there! Maybe even have a beer or two

Oh! And we’ll bring fresh RubyMine 1.1 with us.

See you at RailsWayCon!

RailsConf 2009 is over and we are on our way back from Las Vegas right now.

Visiting RailsConf was a really great experience: lots of passionate and smart people doing interesting presentations, keynotes, sessions and tutorials and simply sharing ideas. Let alone the pleasures in Las Vegas itself

Before going to the conference we had some fears: showing RubyMine, for the first time, face to face to a bunch of plain text editor devotees, after all. But it went just excellent! Those four days just flew by…

We found a big number of developers is already familiar with RubyMine and some had purchased it by then or did it during the conference. It was especially inspiring to receive a positive feedback personally. Several speakers and presenters have mentioned different RubyMine’s strengths such as refactoring, smart code completion and our neat version control integration. We are very grateful to everyone who shared their passion.

We spoke with more than 10% of attendees during the the conference and for every single person there was something interesting in RubyMine. This is what’s great about active communities—their members are generally open to new things.

They say “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”, but we are bringing a lot with us. We cannot wait to get to the office to start processing the feedback we collected and implementing new features from the suggestions.

And, of course, really looking forward to more interesting events, with the next one being the RailswayCon, taking place in Berlin on May 25-27.

The photos are coming…

Posted by Eugene Toporov, Marketing Manager

This week we welcome everyone to come to meet us at QCon London.

Dmitry Jemerov, the Lead Developer at JetBrains is there to answer your questions, to listen to your feedback about RubyMine, IntelliJ IDEA and to tell about other products JetBrains is working on.

If you are in London, visit us at QCon!

Posted by Eugene Toporov, Marketing Manager

It is decided and already settled. We’ll be attending RailsConf 2009 in Las Vegas this year.

We really look forward to coming to this biggest technology event. We hope to meet there our existing users in person, get some live feedback, and of course show RubyMine to more people.

Hope to meet you there!

Posted by Eugene Toporov, Marketing Manager

The original plan was to publish the EAP build on Monday. But there are some interesting things in this build that we could not wait any longer!

What’s inside?

• Ruby Gems manager
• Extract Method refactoring
• Fixed performance regression in build 638
• Three new inspections
• and more…

Download RubyMine EAP build 681 and let us know your thoughts.

Check the 2 demos below demonstrating the Extract Method refactoring.

Simple method extraction and error handling.(View full screen)

Extract method with multiple return values (view full screen)

Posted by Eugene Toporov, Marketing Manager