RubyMine

New Features

New features in RubyMine 5

Ruby iOS development with RubyMotion

RubyMotion is a toolchain that lets you create native iOS applications using Ruby language. Developing with its help is a real pleasure and RubyMine makes it even cooler and more productive with the smart syntax highlighting, code completion, running, testing and debugging features.

New development tools

• Coffeescript debugger - set breakpoints and debug your CoffeeScript code.
• TextMate bundles support - import TextMate bundles to expand the number of languages you may use with syntax highlighting support.
• Cutting-edge Ruby - introduces Ruby 2.0 syntax and debugging support.
• JRuby development - features full running and debugging support for TorqueBox or Trinidad. You can also compile your JRuby code.

Increased app control

• Remote Ruby interpreters - add and set up a remote SDK on virtual machines and remote hosts so you can easily run, test and debug your remote app.
• Gem development - create gem applications and manage all gems and their dependencies with the gems dependency diagram.
• Puppet support - introduces syntax highlighting and code completion for Puppet.
• Database tools - introduces new edit tools for working with columns, tables, key and indices; introduces a definition editor to edit the definition for views, procedures and packages; introduces a diff tool for generating SQL queries of the different between tables/databases.
• VCS tools - updates and improvements to Git, Mercurial and Subversion support.

Enhanced productivity

• Introduces a new native dark UI theme.
• Retina-display support.
• Updated IdeaVim plugin for Vim users.
• Updated Sass and LESS support.

New features in RubyMine 4.5

Support for more frameworks and tools

• Saas support - supports Saas syntax highlighting, code insight and formatting.
• Sinatra support - take advantage of code insight and running and debugging support for Sinatra apps.
• MongoDB/Mongoid support - introduces support for Mongoid, an Object-Document-Mapper for MongoDB, written in Ruby.
• Ruby versions management - now you can manage Ruby versions using pik or rbenv. RubyMine automatically detects Ruby interpreters and configures SDKs accordingly.
• New debugging options - run IRB/Rails console in debug mode and attach to sub-processes automatically.

Enhanced Rails development

• Rails Engines support - develop and run/debug your engines and miniature applications that can be embedded in your main app.
• Deploying with Capistrano - run Capistrano tasks from inside the IDE and create run/debug configurations for them.
• Model Diagram improvements - use Model Dependency Diagrams for analysing and managing your models.
• Renaming enhancements - rename model refactoring for easier model renaming.

New refactorings

• Saas refactorings - introduces rename and extract variable refactorings.
• CoffeeScript refactorings - the refactorings available for JavaScript code are now also available for CoffeeScript.
• Extract partial for HAML - support for extract partial refactoring for HAML views.

Enhanced Mac support

• MacRuby syntax highlighting - support for MacRuby syntax highlighting for creating RubyMotion apps.
• Retina-display support - support for MacBook Retina display.
• Mac OS X native help - RubyMine help topics support native Mac OS X.