Recently Eclipse has been giving me problems, closing suddenly, troubles to start, too slow to start and when I was updating some plugins it started to some weird things when I write, every letter appeared to the left of the previous one. So I decided that it was time to change IDE and I found that NetBeans has added support to Ruby/Rails in a plugin and the reate of updates and new features is fast, so decided to try it.
From the start it seems to use less resources than Eclipse, and better yet, if you only need an IDE to Ruby/Rails there is a reduced version of the IDE (just 22MB). But what is interesting is that they are constantly adding options and features without letting bug fixing on a side.
In the blog of Tor Norbye is where you can find information about new features added in the Ruby support. One of the last news I liked is that NetBeans now supports dinamic code templates like Textmate (which you know is only for Mac). You write a few letters and the editor recognizes it as a text previously defined, inserts the full template and you just have to replace variables and parameters specific to your code.
Tambien agregaron Tooltips o Parameter hints como quieran llamarle, que te muestran los parametros comunes de una funcion y conforme los vas escribiendo se actualiza para indicar que parametro es el que estas tecleando.
En general me parece un IDE mas completo y agil que Eclipse, el cual aun tengo instalado para algunas cosas que tengo que hacer en PHP, pero lo que he visto en esta semana creo que no durara mucho mas tiempo instalado y sera desplazado definitivamente por Netbeans
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