# NetBeans IDE Ruby/Rails - support for auto-completion

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/netbeans-ide-ruby-rails-support-for-auto-completion/87508>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 3, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/netbeans-ide-ruby-rails-support-for-auto-completion/87508 "2007-03-03T05:30:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/71c47a/32.png) [@greg](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/greg)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/netbeans-ide-ruby-rails-support-for-auto-completion/87508/1 "2007-03-03T05:30:11Z")

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Hi all,

Thought some people may be interested in the following info / threads  
I have just come across myself. They are regarding what seemingly is  
the fast upcoming support for Ruby/Rails within the NetBean’s IDE.  
I’m personally real interested in the auto-completion. It should be  
noted the Ruby/Rails support is still not finalised into a stable  
public release, so I’ve downloaded the latest daily build.

Links:

- [http://blogs.sun.com/tor/category/Ruby](http://blogs.sun.com/tor/category/Ruby)
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> **[Installing NetBeans with Ruby / Rails support](https://tnlessone.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/installing-netbeans-with-ruby-rails-support/)**
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> As stated in my blog, I am having a look at the most well-known Ruby / Rails IDE competitors. Thus I had a try on NetBeans after seeing screenshot and features from Tor’s weblog, and after ha…

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> **[Ruby / Rails IDE Comparison : Idea, Netbeans, RadRails](https://tnlessone.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/ruby-rails-ide-comparison-idea-netbeans-radrails/)**
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> Welcome early-early adopters! Ruby and Rails are getting more and more popular in the community and well known editors start to get into the business for our pleasure! While my editor of choice for…

Extract from last link above:  
Netbeans owns its competitors in Edition and Navigation, which is  
after all most of the time you’ll spend in (apart of debugging). The  
syntax highlighting is very effective and clear. The autocompletion is  
advanced next to Idea and Eclipse at the cost of Indexing the Ruby and  
Gems SDK at first run (few minutes). The filtered autocompletion is in  
progress and depends on the context. Once you use autocompletion a  
list with all possible functions will appear, and while you choose any  
of them, you’ll get the associated RDoc, saving you precious time. It  
seems as if the browsing between class or through hyperlinks were  
better than its competitors. A debugger should be available with  
Milestone 8.

I’m sure the Sun team would appreciate any feedback on the Ruby  
support features as they aim to complete it and roll it into a stable  
release.

Cheers  
Greg