FYI: Just found the 7.2 ROR plugin available under a different name: ruby-rails.

Someone may want to combine them into one pluggin page.

For those who were looking for it here it is:

http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/44532/ruby-rails

Is there an option to see variables (while debugging) in HEX format?

The first workaround I put in (check for Kind.EXACT and return without querying) prevents code navigation for classes from working, eg if I have a class called Test and CTRL-click on the word Test, netbeans doesn't open the test.rb file.

So a better workaround is to put this line in RubyIndex.java#search:

result.addAll(querySupport.query(key, name, kind, fieldsToLoad));

in a newly-started thread, and join to the newly-started thread with a timeout (eg 100 ms seems to be OK). If the new thread times out, the search query will still timeout waiting and still return, so the editor never locks up. And this seems to free up the newly-started thread within a second or two.

With this workaround, when you first type the dot after your class (eg "Test.") netbeans often doesn't show any code completion, but hitting CTRL-space usually makes the code completion appear.

The problem btw is set up during indexing but only appears when you try to do code completion. If I disable Kind.EXACT searches in indexing, the editor never hangs, and it never hangs during indexing if I don't disable them. If I disable them only during code completion, it usually hangs right after I type the dot after my class name.

Another btw: I fixed the issue where is does not not run the browser when you click on debug by setting only serverDebug to true in RailsActionProvider.java#runServer(final String path, final boolean debug).

Another btw: Would it be worth bundling JRuby 1.7 with the plugin instead of 1.6.6 ?

@enebo: Oh no, I was kind of hoping you would know how the nb indexing worked!

I fixed the build itself:

1. The first issue I hit was a 'dependent module junit4 is not installed' error, which is due to the bug http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198739. The workaround is to install netbeans as root, then run it once with "sudo -i /usr/local/netbeans-7.2/bin/netbeans" to make it install junit4 in /usr/local instead of your home folder.

2. After this, when I tried to build the project, it complained that the com-jcraft-jsch, org-apache-commons-httpclient, org-apache-commons-io modules were missing. The jar files for these are all in /usr/local/netbeans-7.2/platform/modules, and so I created library wrapper projects for them as described in http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/faqsuck/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/other/faqsuck/build/faq.html#DevFaqWrapperModules. I also created wrapper libraries for com-jcraft-jzlib and org-apache-commons-logging. This was enough to get it to build, even though the Project Properties / Libraries complained about incompatible specification versions for the wrapper libraries.

3. The "package as NBMs" command created 22 plugins, but not the org-jruby-jruby.nbm module, which the "Ruby Projects" module required, so I couldn't install the plugins in Netbeans. I manually copied the jruby-complete-1.6.5.1.jar file from the o.jruby.complete project module to another folder, then deleted the o.jruby.complete project and made a new wrapper project for jruby-complete-1.6.5.1.jar with codebase org.jruby.jruby. After running "package as NBMs", all 23 NBM packages were created and I was finally able to install them.


Right now it seems to be all working (and not locking up), except that my breakpoints don't work, so I guess it's not connecting to the debugger properly. I'm using ruby-debug-ide 0.4.17.beta14 because the earlier version doesn't work with Rails3/ruby1.9 properly, but the nb-ruby plugin specified version 0.4.10, I think. Would that cause problems?

The plugin was updated for 7.2 some time ago... it took me a long time to figure out how to build it (I got all sorts of errors like "junit4 is not installed", "com-jcraft-jsch, org-apache-commons-httpclient, org-apache-commons-io modules are missing", and it doesn't build the org-jruby-jruby.nbm plugin - I logged how I fixed all these in a comment at https://blogs.oracle.com/geertjan/entry/ruby_in_netbeans_ide_7).

When I finally got it working though, invoking code completion would invariably lock up the editor.

The problem is in the class RubyCodeCompleter where it calls RubyIndex: in the search method, the the line "result.addAll(querySupport.query(key, name, kind, fieldsToLoad));" at some point fails to return from the query method.

This appears to only happen if kind == Kind.EXACT, so adding the test "if (kind == Kind.EXACT) return true;" stops the lockup from happening.

But I guess this probably breaks something in the code completion. Does anyone know what is supposed to be happening and why it locks up, ie what would a proper fix be for this?

Loved the http://nbruby.hron.me/updates/updates.xml Update centre, worked a treat for me.

Now though 7.2 is out, gave it a try, but the plugin refused to install due to lots of HTML editor version incompatibilities.. :(

This is a real shame as, along with others, I have found Netbeans to be the best IDE for Ruby.

Until @enebo provides us a working release I created an Update center based on preview zip for this plugin to make installation easier.

To add this Update Center please do following:

1) Under Tools -> Plugins -> Settings, press Add
2) Fill Name with whatever you can recognize
3) Enter http://nbruby.hron.me/updates/updates.xml to the URL field
4) Press OK

Now you can select Ruby on Rails again in Plugins view.

This is contains exactly same content what @enebo provided us via community-ruby_7_1_preview1.zip just makes installation easier.

theyaa,

Adding thin support at the same level and mongrel or glassfish should be reasonably easy. Biggest issue in adding it is recognizing when it has fully started up. The rest looks easy.

Is there a chance to add Thin server to the list of selectable servers? I read it is lighter and has better performance than Mongrel and WebRick.

Thanks

Sadly, it seems like this plugin have been totally abandoned. No one from the dev team comes here to respond to comments to post news about the progress on this plugin.

Developing RoR with netbeans has been the best out there. I hope the dev team will come back to provide us with help and eventually a new version of this plugin.

The provided link below is for netbeans 7.1, is there a new one for 7.1.1.

Plus, the last update to this plugin is nearly 1 year ago, will you be releasing a new one?

Thanks

Hi all,

i tried to install this plugin but it didnt' work.
When will be a version for NB 7.1.1 available?

Regards
Andi

Hi All,
Netbeans 7.1.1 is out, any updates to this plugin?

Thanks

I just tried to create project from existing source of 2.3.x and it still shows 3.x plugins in the gem list. But the command-line bundle exec and bundle install etc work fine with 2.3.

Doesn't the preview release of rails plugin on Netbeans 7.1 work with rails 2.3 apps anymore?

Why when I start mongrel on netbeans 7.1, the Profiler starts and the memory usage goes over the roof?

Hi,
Netbeans 7.1+Ruby on Rails plugin uses 900MB RAM + Ruby takes around 230MB. That is a total of more than 1GB RAM and it renders netbeans very slow. Is there a way to reduce this usage and improve netbean's performance?

Thanks

Thank you for the update, I have installed the plugin preview on netbeans 7.1 and imported my settings from 7.1 beta. Something I noticed, is that when I right-click on my project root, I do not get the context-menu.

Is that a bug or I missed something?

I was hoping to have things resolved last week but a issue popped up which will prevent getting uploaded to 7.1 catalog. By tomorrow (my time) I will provide a url for test 'test' nbms's for community-ruby for people to try out (these will for sure load in 7.1 and at least basic Ruby editing appears to be fine). Here is an issue to watch for progress on official release:

http://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207025

Everybody please take your time to vote for this plugin!

Why?

I think Netbeans is still the best ruby IDE. I have been testing rubymine every other month for a year now, but in terms of speed, stability and usability it is not an option.

If we get more votes on this, existing devs see that their work is appreciated and more developers might take a look on improving this plugin.

The old problem for Windows XP OS detected by me still in Netbeans 7.0 exists. When creating a new Ruby or Rails project, the wizzard stays frozen at 25% of progression. The onky way to quit - is to kill the application via TAsk Manager pane. After restarting Netbeans, the project that failed before can be opened without problems.

How to install the plugin after downloading the zip file, please? In the previous 7.0.1 version the plugin was in the plugins list, it is no more the case in Netbeans 7.1 version. Any idea how to try it?
I unzipped the archive and tried to install all the included *.nbm files separately, one by one. The problem is with RHTML plugin:

The plugin HTML Editor Library is requested in version >= 1.21 (release version 1) but only 2.0.1 (of release version different from 1) was found.
There are still 5 plugins (of 25 available in the zip) uninstalled because of that. More of that, even those which were installed without any errors are not displayed in the installed plugins tab.

When downloading Netbeans, several versions are presented. Before, there was a specific version for Ruby, but now we need to choose a different version to run the ruby and rails plugin with it. Which version of Netbeans is the recommended to download to work with Ruby on Rails plugin?

Thanks

I am getting close to submitting a version which works well with Netbeans 7.1. I don't have any idea why it would be so slow in 7.1 beta unfortunately.

I will give it my best to eliminate the HTML editor problems not allowing NB 7.1 to load Ruby support very soon. Sorry it has not happened already.

Anyone has an update on using this plugin with netbeans 7.1 please? When I install 7.1 I can not install this plugin, it gives me several errors.

There is some work underway to update nbruby to use 7.{01} APIs instead of relying on deprecated 6.9 APIs. It will also update Ruby parser for better 1.9 support. Ran into some issues during the upgrade which needs to get worked out.

That's what i get when trying to create both ruby and rails projects. tried reinstalling both ruby interpreter and netbeans but it didn't help. (Windows 7, Netbeans 7.0.0, Ruby 1.9.2)

@charlesdeb

That is likely true. I am not yet familiar with how basic HTML support ties into Erb editing (it might just work with newer HTML module), but anything tangential to specific Ruby modules will just work. For NB 7, I mostly upgraded to keep up on top of the new Java features and basic IDE enhancements (I use both Ruby and Java daily).

@dant

This will work on NB release 6.9 or 7.0 (there is a version field above that specifies this).

It ships with an older version of JRuby (next version of this plugin will update to current version of JRuby), but you will need to install Ruby outside of Netbeans if you don't want to use that JRuby version and then you can add additional ruby runtimes that nb knows about in preferences (this is similiar to how nb handles versions of Java if you have ever changed that).