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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RubyMine license allows using the IDE from different computers (non-simultaneously). And once you have more than one IDE installation, you are in need to configure them all. But most likely you’d want them all to be configured similarly. So, to simplify this task, we’ve made the so called ‘IDEA Server plugin’ compatible with RubyMine 2.x

The plugin allows to synchronize IDE settings between installations, so setting up a new workstation is the matter of several clicks with it.

To install the plugin, open IDE Settings | Plugins, select the ‘Available’ tab, find the ‘Idea Server Plugin’ in the list and install it. Then restart RubyMine and you will get the Settings Server login prompt on startup.

For more information about the plugin and how it works please refer to Synchronizing IntelliJ IDEA Settings using IDEA Server document in our knowledge base.

If you find some problems or have additional questions about this functionality — let us know.

Note: To use the plugin you need RubyMine 2.0.1 or later.

Develop with pleasure,
-JetBrains RubyMine Team

I can see that there are quite many of you already: those who use RubyMine and those who read this blog. Numbers can not lie. And there are always people who like customizing the tools they use. Fortunately, RubyMine provides a good number or options for this.

It is always a pleasure and fun for us to see what you do with our product to make it feel better for you. And we are also confident that these things should be shared amongst others and we are ready to help with this where possible.

So, recently we started collecting some cool RubyMine-related stuff people share on the Net: nice color-schemes, file templates, etc.

If you’ve made something you are ready to share, let us know and we’ll get it posted or even added to the default RubyMine distribution, with your permission, of course.

Read the hints on how you can share and install the shared customizations.

So, let’s start sharing!

Posted by Eugene Toporov, Marketing Manager