Oct 15
IntelliJ 7 has now shipped and I am most excited to see the non-Java support. If you take a peak at the Ruby features, it looks pretty good and thorough:
- Smart, scope based JRuby-aware Ruby code completion
- Automatic completion of built-in methods
- Smart Ruby statements completion
- Completion and automatic resolution in require and load calls
- Ruby code syntax and error highlighting, with brace matching and folding
- Code style support with automatic formatting, indentation and TODO marks
- On-the-fly Ruby code analysis with quick-fixes
- JRuby and Ruby-aware intention actions
- Advanced Ruby code and project navigation
- Ruby-aware structure view, quick structure popup
- Go to Ruby class, file, symbol and declaration actions
- Quick declaration view, context and method parameter info
- Quick overriding of classes, modules and methods with active navigation gutters
- Multiple ruby-aware refactorings
- Ruby code usage search for local variables, method parameters, class fields and constants
- Dedicated Ruby run configuration and quick script execution
- JRuby support for running Ruby applications, with cross-resolution of classes between Ruby and Java
- Unit testing support with quick tests launching for a specified method, class or set of tests
- Stack trace analysis with one-click Ruby code navigation
- Ruby code documentation lookup with hyperlinks and navigation
- More than 50 Ruby and RSpec live templates
- Shortcuts settings for rake tasks, generators, RSpec, etc
I like Textmate and all, but it is far from being IntelliJ. Textmate is fast, clean, and simple. IntelliJ is smart. Netbeans has done a great job with Ruby support, and it is fantastic to see IntelliJ put its hat in the ring. I am looking forward to putting it through its paces. As much as I like IntelliJ, I have to admit that sometimes I wish that I still have version 3 around…. which was lean and mean. Hopefully the performance improvements are real in v7.
