From: Daniel Bush <bush.daniel@...>
Date: 2008-08-09T23:08:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby IDE

Jayson Williams wrote:
> I like working in NetBeans, but even on the Quad processor computer at
> work, NetBeans can be sloooow, when it shouldn't be. My one complaint
> about NetBeans is that it eats memory for breakfast lunch and dinner.
> Dejan's experiences sound very similar to mine, except that I have
> never tried VIM. I think I will give VIM a whirl. Thanks Dejan
> 
> ~Jay

Like other people are saying, Netbeans has been quite good for me.  I 
have a 4-gig laptop :)

I started using it in place of vim because it was easier to jump between 
files in a rails application (there are keys to jump from models to 
tests, controllers to views or tests etc).

I love the vim/vi way of dealing with text. You've got climb a small 
hill to understand how to use it when you're starting out, once you do, 
it's hard to go back.  A lot of people will never make that climb 
though.

Some other things regarding netbeans
* the jvi extension - do everything netbeans offers AND edit text like 
vi/vim - that's what sold me about netbeans 
(http://jvi.sourceforge.net/)
* in-built rails / ruby project handling
* mercurial - netbeans handles mercurial quite well; not sure about git 
- that's gotta be there though
* code changes are displayed (green - new, blue - changed, red - delete 
on the files you are editing and changed files are highlighted; just a 
nice touch
* it takes a year for it start up on my ubuntu laptop - no idea why.

 Daniel
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