{"id":3755,"date":"2011-01-27T18:01:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T17:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3755-no-more-ruby-support-in-netbeans-the-feature-was-little-used-say-oracle.html"},"modified":"2011-01-27T18:01:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T17:01:42","slug":"no-more-ruby-support-in-netbeans-the-feature-was-little-used-say-oracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3755-no-more-ruby-support-in-netbeans-the-feature-was-little-used-say-oracle.html","title":{"rendered":"No more Ruby support in NetBeans &#8211; the feature was little used, says Oracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle has <a href=\"http:\/\/netbeans.org\/community\/news\/show\/1507.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> the discontinuation of Ruby support in the NetBeans IDE. The reason? First, to free resources for JDK 7 support; but second (and more significant) \u2013 hardly anyone was using it.<\/p>\n<p>There is hardly a shortage of Ruby IDEs. Ones that come to mind are the Eclipse-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aptana.com\/products\/radrails\" target=\"_blank\">Aptana<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/ruby\/\" target=\"_blank\">JetBrains RubyMine<\/a>, the Visual Studio based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapphiresteel.com\/Products\/Ruby-In-Steel\/Ruby-In-Steel-Developer-Overview\" target=\"_blank\">Ruby in Steel<\/a>, and Embarcardero\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embarcadero.com\/products\/3rdrail\" target=\"_blank\">3rd Rail<\/a>. Further, some Ruby developers prefer to work without an IDE.<\/p>\n<p>I also suspect that Ruby has not quite hit the mainstream in the way it seemed that it might a few years back. Its influence has been huge, but in practice many developers still fall back to PHP, Java and C#.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle has announced the discontinuation of Ruby support in the NetBeans IDE. The reason? First, to free resources for JDK 7 support; but second (and more significant) \u2013 hardly anyone was using it. There is hardly a shortage of Ruby IDEs. Ones that come to mind are the Eclipse-based Aptana, JetBrains RubyMine, the Visual Studio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3755-no-more-ruby-support-in-netbeans-the-feature-was-little-used-say-oracle.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No more Ruby support in NetBeans &#8211; the feature was little used, says Oracle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,64,67,70,80,96],"tags":[512,628,686,721,790],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-php","category-professional","category-ruby","category-software-development","category-web-authoring","tag-java","tag-netbeans","tag-oracle","tag-php","tag-ruby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}