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Java IDE shines on Ruby

06.02.2007
is now accommodating Ruby developers with the company's IntelliJ Idea Java IDE. A beta plug-in released Feb. 1 enables the product to serve as an IDE for developing Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications, the company said. Ruby is a popular dynamic scripting language; is an open source Web framework that leverages Ruby.

JetBrains' free, open source plug-in, accessible , can be used with Version 6.0 of the company's IDE. A completed version of the plug-in for Ruby is planned for a Fall upgrade to IntelliJ, which will be Version 7.0.

"What we released is a plug-in for IntelliJ Idea, which provides rich support for Ruby development," said Alex Tkachman, chief operations manager for JetBrains, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Although it is not a completed product, the plug-in can be used in production environments now, Tkachman said.

JetBrains is hopping on the Ruby bandwagon because there are a lot of people in the Java community who are also very interested in Ruby, he said.

"I can say that their interest is very high," said Tkachman.