# Eclipse rdt is painful **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 8, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-rdt-is-painful/137053 "2008-05-08T16:17:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_old)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-rdt-is-painful/137053/1 "2008-05-08T16:17:58Z")
Yeah the RDT plugin for eclipse work is painful. It used to be pretty slick. Eclipse v3.3 and the last RDT. The rdt guy got hired by aptana, so it looks like that plugin is no longer or not updated. In eclipse its constantly messing up the formatting / display, memory leaks all over the place, and yet I keep using it b/c I’ve always done all my work in eclipse. Now i am getting worried as there is no decent ruby support there AFAIK. Does that DLTK stuff work very well ? I suppose I’ll give it a go. ---
**Author:** ![john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_old)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-rdt-is-painful/137053/2 "2008-05-08T16:25:07Z")
On May 8, 8:17 am, jOhn [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Yeah the RDT plugin for eclipse work is painful. It used to be pretty > slick. > > Eclipse v3.3 and the last RDT. The rdt guy got hired by aptana, so it looks > like that plugin is no longer or not updated. In eclipse its constantly > messing up the formatting / display, memory leaks all over the place, and > yet I keep using it b/c I’ve always done all my work in eclipse. Now i am > getting worried as there is no decent ruby support there AFAIK. > > Does that DLTK stuff work very well ? I suppose I’ll give it a go. I agree. The copy/paste is so messed up in RDT it’s dangerous (it sometimes copies _extra_ text), and you’re right about the formatting, along with a few other weird things that happen from time to time. I do everything in gvim now, and use Eclipse mostly for project management or just _viewing_ Ruby files. I’d suggest that the Sun/JRuby folks take over RDT, but I think they’re committed to Netbeans. Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_old)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-rdt-is-painful/137053/3 "2008-05-08T17:13:37Z")
Yep DLTK is not bad, it doesn’t run unit tests in the JUnit panel/view, but it does run them with outputs to console. Thumbs up, moving forward ! ---
**Author:** ![john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_old)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-rdt-is-painful/137053/4 "2008-05-10T19:01:11Z")
Yeah the trick was to: Disable all of the RDT plugins in configuration manager. Then open the .metadata workspace folder and delete out any RDT plugins. Then delete the ruby project files. Then delete from the eclipse plugin folder any RDT folders or jars. Then install DLTK for ruby. Add in your ruby interpreter. Then you have a great workspace for ruby stuff. ---
**Author:** ![john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_old)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-rdt-is-painful/137053/5 "2008-05-12T18:24:56Z")
Nope, RDT is from [rubypeople.org](http://rubypeople.org) and is now dead. DLTK is an official eclipse dynamic lang toolkit. If you update your eclipse, be sure to scroll to the bottom repo and select the DLTK repo for the latest updates, I don’t have any issues other than no JUnit (and the nice greenbar) panel for unit tests. ---
**Author:** ![john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@john\_old](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/john_old)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-rdt-is-painful/137053/6 "2008-05-11T03:31:11Z")
On May 10, 11:00 am, jOhn [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Then install DLTK for ruby. Add in your ruby interpreter. > > Then you have a great workspace for ruby stuff. Um, isn’t the DLTK for Ruby just RDT? Because, now that I look at the configuration, I don’t have an explicit entry for RDT, just DLTK for Ruby. So, all of the problems I’ve described actually apply to DLTK. Regards, Dan