From: Dejan Dimic Date: 2007-12-20T23:35:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Good Ruby IDE for Debian Linux? After playing with NetBeans for some time developing some rails project of mine it makes me go back to my first love Aptana. At first it looks OK but I have some issues with it that I dislike a lot. As stated before, code completion is better in NetBeans. Passing thru all my gems it gives me the easy way to start using any of them. It takes some time to start but it works. That is ideal for a new comer. This could improve regarding the context but it's functional. Starting the server and unit testing is OK. Color highlighting can be adjustable to user's fashion. Over all it's a good and usable product. But, and there is always a but. There are some important things that are missing and ruin my perspective of this product. First, there is no way to rename the file extension if it's a known extension file type. So if you have rhtm file type and desire to change it to html.erb you must to OS shell to do so and click more couple of times while NetBeans complains about it. Second, only the generators are present, and not all of them. If you misspelled the model name in scaffold generator there is no way to call destroy to correct it. You must go to command prompt and do it outside of NetBeans IDE while it complains about it, or do it manually deleting all the generating files and removing mapping from routes file. Not a pleasant experience. There is also unsatisfied control on plug-in installation. I was so disappointed that I haven't tried the debugging capabilities. You should try it for your self to see if it suits your needs.