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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:
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Download RubyMine 2.0 Release Candidate!

Those who read this blog regularly probably know what we’ve been adding to RubyMine. We ourselves have made an overview recently and realized that the new version is definitely twice as good as RubyMine 1.0 so please welcome RubyMine 2.0 Beta.

RubyMine 2.0 will be available in mid-October free for all existing users, according to the licensing policy.

Major RubyMine 2.0 additions include:

• Ruby 1.9  and Rails 2.3.3 support
• 8 new Ruby refactorings to “Introduce…”, “Extract…” and “Inline… “
• Rock-star Cucumber scenarios editing
• Full Support for Shoulda testing framework
• Ruby in HAML editing and Sass syntax highlighting
• Rails i18n coding assistance
• Ruby code duplicates detection
• Integrated Ruby-aware spellchecker
• Ability to extend IDE using Ruby scripts
• TeamCity integration plugin for RubyMine IDE
• 100+ IDE improvements and more than 200 fixed issues.
• Huge amount of changes in IntelliJ platform and shared functionality (background indexing, “Extract method” refactoring in JavaScript, etc.)

Read and see more about the new features and download RubyMine 2.0 Beta to try the above features today.

And that is not all the news! We continue our good tradition to offer beta discounts, so during the Beta RubyMine costs 20% less! Which means, buy RubyMine 2.0 today to save!

And one hot feature for the desert: you can now instantly open controller action in your browser: Alt+F2