Re: NetBeans not ready for Rails 2.0

Hello Bartee,
You wrote below:

One thing to observe is the two guys doing the NB work are NOT Ruby or Rails
guys.   So they do not think like highly productive RoR developers.  They
are ( I'm Sure ) excellent Java guys.  I am sure they are learning Ruby and
Rails as they go, but when I watch some guys on Textmate it is truly amazing
the speed at which they can crank out code.   I think NB will have to
approach the speed of Textmate to become widely accepted.

Actucally, I have to respectfully disagree with you.  I am simply amazed at how good Tor is.  I am beginning to understand the programming lore that a really good developer is better than 20 average developers.  Tor is simply one of the best developers judging from his work.  I have used NetBeans since 6.0 was in bea past Spring and have seen it grow by leaps and bounds.  As a long time Eclipse user, I have not seen anything that even comes close to NetBeans Ruby combination.  My interest was to provide general feedback and sound out the user community to find out if I was missing something in Rails 2.0 and NetBeans combination?  After all, I am primarily interested in NetBeans because of Rails not Ruby.

I do not believe that it is important to compare an editor and IDE speed-wise.  I use VIM/GVIM/CREAM combination which is quite fast.  An IDE is a different animal.  It has to index everything.  But I think that something is broken in the NetBeans 6.1 dev build which the developers may not be aware of (or always a possiblity that I am doing something wrong).

Regards,

Bharat