Ok, so I’ve been using Netbeans for over a week now and, I have to say,
I’m hooked. I won’t be going back to Aptana in a hurry.
I’ve used the Rails stuff (obviously) and also the Subversion and Mysql
parts too.
Minor gripes
additional files in project tree (I’ve mentioned this before)
renaming files won’t let you change the extension (e.g changing .rhtml
to .mab)
subversion got a little messed up a couple of times - I don’t know if
this is a netbeans issue or not.
i wish it wouldn’t keep hiding the output window
it doesn’t kill ruby when stopping the server. Requires reverting to a
terminal and doing a kill -9.
a couple of time the editor seemed to get confused and start drawing
text on the wrong line or one space out of position. Closing and
reopening the file sorted it.
Other than that, I really like it.
What would be great is if I could use vi for the integrated editor. I’ve
used vi for years and I would find it really useful.
Well, the first instance, I needed to change one line of one file in a
rails plugin. Before I started I had just done a commit: no problems.
I then used the file search facility on the “file” view to locate the
file and proceeded to do my edit (which was just a simple commenting out
one line of code, so a 1 character change).
I then did another commit. Or I tried to.
What happened next (I think, I’m not sure) was the files that were
located in the “find” were effectively deleted from the repo even though
they were still in my working copy. So, now the two were out of sync. I
tried rolling back and all sorts to no avail. I tried deleting and
re-adding the plugin which just made matters worse. Several “commit”
attemps added to the mess. In the end I exited netbeans and used a
command line to delete my working copy and check out the last known
“good” version. I then used the svn command line to delete the plugin
and then the ruby command line to add it back in. I then made my edit
using vi from the command line. Eventually I got it sorted.
Then, last night, it started complaining about “.” being out of date,
which it wasn’t as far as I could tell. I fixed this by deleting
.svn/all-wcprops the root directory of my working copy and re-doing the
commit.
I am admittedly new to svn but it does seem quite delicate; but, that
may be a netbeans issue - I don’t know.