When building REST-based web APIs, it’s worth having a tool available to invoke them over HTTP. The current versions of WebStorm 6, PhpStorm 6, RubyMine 5.4 and PyCharm contain a bundled REST Client plugin which allows us to do just that. In this blog post, we’ll have a quick look at the built-in features of the REST Client and on how to use them. (more…)

One more EAP for these holidays – many fixes and some features: PHP type inference for "fluent interface" call chains (@return $this / @return static) will infere the proper type – which is known only at at point of reference. Note that one important case is still not supported – assigning result of such a call returning $this/static to variable New PHP refactoring: move class to another namespace REST Client plugin included More details on PHP changes available in tracker We are working on improved type inference, composer support and framework integration, although features will