Get Involved in RubyMine Community!

Hello everyone,

Do you know what we at JetBrains consider one of the key aspects of creating a great product? Building and maintaining a strong and committed community. And we do want to see it well-connected and organized.

So we’ve decided to remind you about the channels you can use to communicate with our team and each other efficiently and with pleasure. Here they are:

Please use the following links: Blog (via RSS), Twitter, YouTrack, Discussion Forum (via RSS)

You can also submit your feedback directly from RubyMine using Help | Submit Feedback form. There’s always something to share: your impressions, feedback, questions or knowledge!

Hint: As we welcome help, we also show our appreciation. The most active community members are rewarded by the team from time to time.


Communicate with pleasure!
JetBrains RubyMine Team

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RubyMine Nire EAP (118.533): MacRuby syntax support

Hello everyone,

There are a lot of discussions around RubyMotion these days. And we can’t help being interested. There are still a lot of questions to be answered, but a long way always starts with small steps. So we are glad to announce that RubyMine Nire EAP build (118.533) brings MacRuby syntax support:

And it means you can enjoy appropriate syntax highlighting for RubyMotion apps as well. Work is in progress so your comments and feedback are very welcome.

We have also improved Model Dependency Diagram for you to be able to:

  • Create a new model from diagram context menu
  • Change diagram view by removing/adding models
  • Drag diagram elements to customize a layout
  • Add a text note to a model

Find more details and screenshots in the release notes. Stay with us and let us know if anything goes wrong.


Develop with pleasure!
JetBrains RubyMine Team

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RubyMine “Nire” Early Access is Open

Hello everyone,

I’m glad to announce the next RubyMine version called “Nire” is accessible within Early Access Program. The codename comes from Japanese name of the elm tree. The release will be available in July but you can try all the new features in the first flight and we will tune them for the release based on your feedback.

Please welcome the new features!

  • Capistrano is now supported with syntax and error highlighting, code completion, structure view and tasks running directly from the IDE.
  • You can manage Ruby versions using pik and rbenv. RubyMine automatically detects Ruby interpreters and configures SDK’s accordingly.
  • We’ve got more then 50 votes for Slim support request. So please try the cutting-edge template language with a syntax highlighting in RubyMine.
  • Work on your stylesheets with Sass support including code insight and
    formatting.

Find more details and screenshots in the release notes. Please follow the tag “Nire” to read about the next release version in our blog. We will be posting about new features during the summer, stay with us.


Develop with pleasure!
JetBrains RubyMine Team

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5 License Winners from RailsConf 2012!

Hello everyone,

RailsConf 2012 was great and we’re still under impression. Thanks for everyone who came to our booth and talked to us. So many warm words and interesting feedback! And finally we’re ready to announce the winners of our short quiz.

We had 22 cards with correct answers that we mixed thoroughly:

Then we picked up 5 quiz cards:

 

And the winners are… 

  • Bhaskar Sundarraj
  • Daren Chylinski
  • Phillip Medrano
  • Chris Bell
  • Keith Epley

We heartily congratulate you all!

A personal message will be sent to each of the winners with the details on how to obtain the license. If you see your name above and you will not get any e-mails during the day, ping us here in the comments.


Develop with pleasure!
JetBrains RubyMine Team

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RailsConf, Hot Texas is Waiting!

Hello everyone,

We released RubyMine 4.0.3 yesterday and can now leave to RailsConf with a good conscience. Hot Texas is waiting and we’re excited and looking forward to having a productive and interesting time in Austin!

So, if you are going to be there too, come to see us at JetBrains/RubyMine booth in the RailsConf expo hall or identify us by RubyMine t-shirts. Your non-virtual feedback is just what we need for a next big update we’re planning! And we in turn are promising to smile, answer your questions and sweeten discussions with chocolate.


See you at the biggest Rails event of the year!
JetBrains RubyMine Team

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RubyMine 4.0.3 Update is Available

Hello everyone,

We were fixing, and testing, and fixing all week long to make 4.0.3 version stable. We have also improved SCSS/LESS support with smart “Go to declaration” navigation from your html to stylesheets.  So today we’re ready to announce the release of RubyMine 4.0.3.

Please use “Check for Updates…” from RubyMine to install the update without re-downloading. Or download the new version from our site. You can also take a look at the full list of bug fixes.

Please let us know if something goes wrong.


Develop with pleasure!
JetBrains RubyMine Team

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RubyMine 4.0.3 RC is Here

Hello everyone,

April has already come and we’re preparing and looking forward for RailsConf 2012. The team is working actively on the next major version. However we’ve got a bunch of bugfixes for 4.0 including migrations editing performance improvements. RubyMine 4.0.3 is based on the last platform version so that Subversion (SVN) 1.7 is also supported in RubyMine now. UI for Git branches was reworked as well.

So please download RubyMine 4.0.3 Release Candidate, check out the release notes, and let us know if anything goes wrong.


Develop with pleasure!
JetBrains RubyMine Team

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Easter Egg-stravaganza!

Have you behaved all year and written concise, clear code? Then go get your baskets ready, because the Easter Bunny is close!

From April 2 until April 16, the Easter Bunny is giving away great discounts on many of our IDEs as well as our issue and bug tracker, YouTrack.

Get 30% OFF on your personal license for these cool products:

RubyMine — the cutting-edge Ruby and Rails IDE
PhpStorm — lightweight and smart PHP IDE
IntelliJ IDEA — the smartest code-centric Java IDE
PyCharm — Python & Django IDE
AppCode — objective C IDE

Also, get 20% OFF on ANY stand-alone pack of YouTrack — our awesome bug & issue tracker!

Catch the Easter Bunny’s before it’s gone!


Happy Easter, and develop with pleasure!
JetBrains Team

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Spring Came with RubyMine 4.0.2

Hello everyone,

Do you feel the spirit of spring and holidays? Here in Russia we have the sun shining and men wishing a happy Women’s Day on the occasion of March 8. In those days you want to make life a little bit better. And we hopefully do with a new RubyMine bugfix update.

So, today we’ve made RubyMine 4.0.2 release available for you. Several nasty issues reported by you were fixed. See the full list of fixes and download RubyMine 4.0.2 to give it a try. Please note, that upgrade is not available and full installation is needed for this version.


Develop with pleasure!
JetBrains RubyMine Team

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Welcome Ruby Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA 11.1

Hello everyone,

We’ve received a lot of positive and inspiring feedback since RubyMine 4 was released. We’re very glad and thankful to you for helping us go on in making RubyMine even better. And we know that some of you are working with Java and Ruby or JRuby at once and looking forward for all the new features to appear in Ruby plugin too.

So we are happy to let you know that Ruby plugin for the latest IntelliJ IDEA is out. It covers all the features that RubyMine 4 has. As usual you can install it from IntelliJ IDEA plugin manager.

Read about the new features on our site.


Develop with pleasure!
JetBrains RubyMine Team

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