I decided to write a quick review on the NetBeans Ruby and Rails IDE with JRuby book from Apress. The book is focused on NetBeans 6.5 and JRuby development. This is not a limitation on the book however.

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The book is really an introduction to how to use NetBeans to do Ruby development. The latest version of NetBeans (6.8) has a number of additional features (enhancements) over the version detailed in this book. Perhaps the authors can do an up-to-date version of the book to cover the latest enhancements. If not, perhaps I will consider taking up the mantle. I really loved the book.

Rosa Passos Amorosa Rar. I would give it 4/5 stars which if you have read my reviews is a brutal rating to get. I performed a baseline install of NetBeans 6.5 including the plugins required for doing JRuby/Ruby development as noted in the book. The book follows along perfectly with the installer and IDE. I guess you could call this book the reference to the IDE for JRuby/Ruby development.

The first chapter details the installation and configuration of the IDE. The explanation is spot on, but NetBeans is also really to install and configure. The second chapter covers your basic 'Hello World' from both a basic JRuby project and from JRuby on Rails (JRoR).

The third chapter covers configuration of JRuby using the NetBeans gem manager, setting up servers, and configuring databases for use with the development environment. The section on gems with native extensions, and replacements is very helpful.

Chapters four and five cover Ruby and Rails projects in more detail. It demonstrates a number of the capabilities that the IDE.

I really like the Rails Console and example of how to use it. Chapter six covers editing files and the capabilities that the IDE provides including code completion.

This was the first real mainstream IDE to provide JRuby/Ruby code completion. It does it beautifully. Chapter seven covers debugging and testing. The authors do a great job of explaining why NetBeans should be your choice of IDE for doing Ruby development. JRuby itself is the topic of chapter eight.

There is an example of how to use JRuby in Java projects. This is really cool. However, it should be noted that you need to make some changes for it to work on JSE5. This is noted on Page 136, but the code needs a slight modification to use JRubyScriptEngineManager instead of ScriptEngineManager. Nyala Bold Ttf Font more. Chapter nine covers Ruby on Rails (RoR) deployments using warbler. I have found warbler to be a great tool and use it extensively to deploy applications to GlassFish v 2.x.