NetBeans IDE 6.0 M10 is out

Netbeans 6.0 M10 is out. There are many editing and debugging improvement for RHTML files. Here is the new feature sections for Ruby development.

• Find Usages
• Rename Refactoring
• RHTML support
  • Debugging (breakpoints, stepping etc. in RHTML files)
  • Code completion
  • Go to declaration
  • Find Usages
  • Rename
• Improved code completion - attributes, Rails migrations, models and views now include all the expected methods, etc.
• Enhanced RDoc rendering; embedded Ruby and RHTML code fragments are now syntax highlighted
• Debugger enhancements (global vars, watch view, locals view)
• Encoding support (projects now have an encoding property)
• Basic RSpec and ZenTest support (More Info), basic RJS support
• JRuby 1.0 is bundled

Developing ROR using Emacs

I saw a few screencast on using Emacs to do ROR development but I was not able to setup emacs to try it out until I saw this five part series on setting up Emacs for Ruby on Rails development from Software bits and pieces.

http://sodonnell.wordpress.com/the-emacs-newbie-guide-for-rails/

After following guide step by steps I was able to get emacs up and running for developing ROR. Initially emacs started up with an error and it wasn't able to go into ROR mode. I found out I was missing inf-ruby which you can get it here. If you following the tutorial then put this file in your c:/emacs-22.1/includes/ directory. After putting the file there, everything works.

I found another site, credmp, also with instructions on how to setup emacs for ROR development. Ruby On Rails and Emacs It also list out the snippets that the emacs-rails supports.

Build FaceBook Application using Rails

Here are links to two blog articles on how to build FaceBook application using Rails.

From GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS:

fist in your facebook

From Liverail >> Rails with currents:

Tutorial on developing a Facebook platform application with Ruby On Rails