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This page contains a list of planned Ruby features for the future releases of NetBeans. If you have any opinion, ideas, priorities, etc., please discuss them with us via our Ruby mailing list.
Features (or RFEs) are sorted by priorities, top-down, meaning P1 as the highest priority. Thus it's very likely that features on top of the list will be implemented firstly.
| P1 | must have feature. Either the feature required by a lot of users and/or without that feature, IDE might be awkward to use. Should be implemented as soon as possible |
| P2 | usually known, wanted feature, already requested by more users |
| P3 | would be very nice to have |
| P4 | others ideas |
There is also IssueZilla long list of feature requests and RFEs. The difference is that we should try to keep this one shorter, more community driven and easy to access.
Planned for next release(s)
Not yet implemented features:
| Priority | Not yet implemented features | Issues |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | Improved terminal handling (for IRB, Rails Console, etc.). This involves terminal emulator code to handle readline-like behavior in the subshell, to handle colorized output, etc. | Issue 133994 |
| P2 | Performance improvements in indexing, code completion, etc. | ??? |
| P2 | Ruby 1.9 / Ruby 2.0 support http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?Changes+in+Ruby+1.9 | ??? |
| P2 | More robust debugger | ??? |
| P2 | Interactive debugging console | Issue 107761 |
| P2 | Additional Refactorings (NOTE: to vague requirement, either file an issue, point to wiki page, ....) | ??? |
| P2 | Ability to search ruby core and gems | Issue 130366 |
| P2 | Tail logs in IDE, ideally colored | Issue 115325 |
| P2 | Possibility to directly open whatever non-NetBeans Ruby or Rails project. | Issue 126410 |
| P2 | Cucumber support. | Issue 150231 |
| P3 | Better interoperability between Ruby and Java projects | Issue 151086 |
| P3 | Speed up startup of JRuby | Issue 114666 |
| P3 | IDE extendible and/or scriptable with Ruby | Issue 151085 |
| P3 | Make Value field in Local Variables writable | Issue 112358 |
| P3 | Ability to modify source code while debugging | Issue 112534 |
| P3 | Easy and intuitive access to documentation | Issue 127710, Issue 128169 |
| P3 | Java integration - make it easies to use Java from JRuby (and vice versa). Could include things such as bundling the necessary jar files, code completion and other editor features. | ??? |
| P4 | Better integration with the DB explorer: actions for jumping from a Rails model to the corresponding db table and for quickly viewing data. | ??? |
NetBeans 7.0
Related documents:
Implemented features (at least partially):
| Priority | Features implemented for NetBeans 7.0 | Issues or Wiki |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | Improve Type Inference | Ruby Type Inference |
| P2 | Remote Debugging support | Issue 104473 |
| P2 | Ruby Platform node in project's logical view | Issue 147864 |
| P3 | Code Coverage Integration (rcov) | Issue 119707 |
| P3 | Shoulda support. | Issue 151652 |
| Any | List of all RFEs and Features implemented in 7.0 since 6.5 (just those tracked in IssueZilla) | N/A |
| Any | List of all Bugs fixed in 7.0 since 6.5 (just those tracked in IssueZilla) | N/A |
NetBeans 6.5
Implemented features:
| Priority | Features implemented for NetBeans 6.5 | Issues |
|---|---|---|
| P1 | sudo (and/or similar tools) integration to make Gem Manager comfortable to all users without the need for any special setup (of GEM_HOME, GEM_PATH, system permissions, ...) | Issue 128575 |
| P2 | Easier Rake targets running. Invocation through a project's context menu is little awkward. Implemented through new Rake Runner dialog. | Issue 124127, Issue 127998 |
| P2 | Ability to apply breakpoint hit condition | Issue 100096 |
| P2 | Ability to set exception breakpoint | Issue 99770 |
| P2 | UI Test Runner | Issue 134779 |
| P2 | Add support for Warbler | Issue 132394 |
| P3 | Rubinius Support | Issue 130597 |
| Any | List of all RFEs and Features implemented in 6.5 since 6.1 (just those tracked in IssueZilla) | N/A |
| Any | List of all Bugs fixed in 6.5 since 6.1 (just those tracked in IssueZilla) | N/A |
| P4 | Ruby options redesign | Issue 123457 |