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1. Artūras Šlajus on 12 Mar 19:57:
   

   I really like NetBeans 6 now. Last time I tried radrails the indenting was weird, there were no source reformatting capabilities (minor annoyance) and html tags weren’t closed automatically (biggest issue for me).

   However, NB6 is really a resource hog and it’s slow as hell..

   Going to download new radrails and try it out for a spin. Maybe they can win me back ;)

2. Piku on 12 Mar 20:45:
   

   Actually the profiler is in the paid version.

3. Chris on 12 Mar 21:58:
   

   RadRails does have code formatting now across the editors (it had Ruby before, but maybe you had used an old version which did not have HTML/CSS/JS formatting), and it also has auto-closing HTML tags.

4. Brandon Zylstra on 13 Mar 06:11:
   

   I’ve tried NetBeans 6, Aptana, and 3rdRail, and all have some nice features but ultimately they all drive me back to TextMate. Currently I keep NetBeans open for occasional use, since OS X allows me to edit the same file in multiple apps without conflict, but spend 98% of my time in TextMate.

5. Erik van der Kolk on 13 Mar 07:36:
   

   NB6.1 has some performance enhancements, including editor enhancements for Ruby/JRuby

6. Artūras Šlajus on 13 Mar 14:54:
   

   Tried it out for a spin – still few things that irritate me.

   for example suppose you have this

   def self.up
       remove_column :events, :flyer_id
       add_column :flyers, :integer, :event_id, :null => false
   end

   And want to wrap it up into transaction block.

   You write transaction in front and end at end.

   The end doesn’t get indented properly automatically, you have to press Home and shift+tab manually.

   On netbeans it’s automagic.

7. Joseph on 13 Mar 17:11:
   

   I couldn’t help but notice that those screenshots are from Vista. Have you switched teams?

8. DHH on 13 Mar 18:36:
   

   No my screenshots. Just grabbed the one they had. It’ll be a cold day in hell when I run Vista voluntarily for Rails development ;)

9. HR on 14 Mar 07:50:
   

   Netbeans isn’t slow. On my machine with 2GB RAM it is realy fast.

10. fidel on 14 Mar 16:23:
    

    Only Vim rulez, all other is garbage! ;-P

11. dharana on 15 Mar 05:44:
    

    I tried using netbeans 6 in two of my projects and it couldn’t even finish opening it (the projects are somewhat large). I also tried it with a newly created project but the features don’t quite match the number of features in radrails. Also RadRails user support is fantastic.

12. Joe Ruby on 17 Mar 06:19:
    

    Gee, the vim/emacs superiority jokes are still funny the 10,283rd time around!

13. Glenn on 17 Mar 13:49:
    

    Good news! I used RadRails back when I was developing on a windows box, and despite running quite slowly on my dated Dell it was a very solid product. There were a few features I even missed after moving to textmate!

14. JLWestSr on 02 Apr 16:48:
    

    I have used the RadRails IDE as well as Netbeans IDE and found both heavy on the resources. Unfortunately I have not been able (financially) been able to go to the Mac platform and still tied into the custom built pc with Win XP (BLAH!). With that I use the e-texteditor w/ CYGWIN for my development environment. Very fast and comes very close to TextMate. But hopefully soon I will see the Mac in my home office for development.

15. Vista on 04 Apr 13:48:
    

    Don’t hype the mac!

16. Tom H on 05 Apr 01:49:
    

    I have been getting up to speed with Aptana and RadRails over the last month. It it not a “slick” product (tied to the god awful Eclipse platform, sort of), but once you begin to figure it out, it’s mostly pretty capable.

    The latest version add some very cool new features, and does a better job with linking declarations/usages and so on, “code assist”, and RI on the fly. I also like some of the Fast View features.

    Stability is good but not great yet. It looks like they have a handle on the big issues, though, and are fixing them fast.

    For us (sad and pathetic) Windows users, it has an alternative console that can handle lines longer than 80 characters without flipping out. I have used Cygwin and Emacs for years, and sorry, but a real IDE is a whole different thing.

    Tom

17. Sudhir on 10 Apr 09:55:
    

    Hey.. Wheres the reference documentation for rails?