NetBeans 6.1 features

List of features being considered for NetBeans 6.1

• P1: 123131 - Rails deployment to GlassFish v3
• P2: 123128 - Update Ruby support to JRuby 1.1 and new versions of other runtimes
• P2: 123133 - Ruby interpreter/platform improvements
• P3: 123127 - Ruby/Rails debugging improvements
• P3: 123130 - Improvements in the Ruby/RHTML/YAML editors
• P3: 123132 - Ruby and Rails projects improvements

Other tasks

Various other tasks to consider - this list may be a bit out of date

• Critical bug fixes:
  • One bug related to tokenizing Ruby's assertions.rb file (July 2nd - just fixed)
• Editing
  • Improve code completion
  • Go to Type dialog (June 14th - just implemented)
  • Inspect Members/Hierarchy actions (in-place code outline for quick keyboard navigation)
• Rails support
  • Support for the Rails console (June 20th - just implemented)
  • Plugin support (June 13th - just implemented)
  • Code completion etc. within RHTML files (June 9th - just implemented)
  • YAML editing support (fixed early August)
• Refactoring
  • Find Usages (June 5th - just implemented)
  • Rename (June 5th - just implemented)
  • Extract class
• Testing
  • Actions for easily creating unit tests and specs for a given class
  • Unit Test runner
• Quick tips (July 10 - just implemented)
• Support for Java-JRuby projects (accessing Java libraries from Ruby code via JRuby (Started - there's a JAR property on Ruby projects now - but needs more work)
• Better support for switching Ruby platforms (JRuby, native JRuby) ala the Java Platform Manager
• Encoding/UTF-8 support in the project (May 28 - just implemented)

If I'm missing something obvious, please let me know - preferably via the the issuetracker.