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You've all heard that Sun hired some of the JRuby guys and that they've been beavering away on improving Ruby running within the JVM. One of the by products of this has been the inclusion of Ruby code editing into Netbeans, an IDE usually associated with Java development and until a year ago was the butt of every other Java IDE's jokes.

Now I'm a happy Textmate user and have been using it for quite a while now, but I have to admit there are various things that have become annoying such as slow search, no inbuilt refactoring support, intellisense and just "understanding" my code within the context of the project. Now I don't need these things but it would sure make working with large Ruby on Rails projects a heck of a lot easier.

If you want to check out some of the smarter intellisense features for Ruby that are to be found in Netbeans then you're going to currently have to do a little bit of work. There's currently a wiki page up detailing everything you need to do in order to build the latest Ruby modules for the IDE. A link to precompiled binaries that can be added to an existing install of Netbeans can also be found on the page. A word of caution though that it's all very work in progress and bad things may happen so I wouldn't go dumping your copy of Textmate just yet.

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