JetBrains RubyMine is a commercial IDE

Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...

 for Ruby

Ruby (programming language)

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto...

 and Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...

 built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA is a commercial Java IDE by JetBrains. It is often simply referred to as "IDEA" or "IntelliJ."-History:The first version of IntelliJ IDEA was released in January 2001, and at the time was the only available Java IDE with advanced code navigation and code refactoring capabilities...

 platform.

RubyMine provides intelligent code completion for Ruby and Ruby on Rails code, on-the-fly code analysis and refactoring

Refactoring

Code refactoring is "disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior", undertaken in order to improve some of the nonfunctional attributes of the software....

 support for both plain Ruby

Ruby (programming language)

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto...

 projects and web applications built with Ruby on Rails.

Key Features

In addition to the smart editor RubyMine offers a set of tools for complete development cycle:

• Code refactorings for Ruby with knowledge about Ruby on Rails specifics
• RSpec
  RSpec
  RSpec is a behavior driven development framework for the Ruby programming language, inspired by JBehave. It contains its own mocking framework that is fully integrated into the framework based upon JMock...
  
  , Cucumber
  Cucumber (software)
  Cucumber is a tool for running automated acceptance tests written in a behavior driven development style. Cucumber is written in Ruby programming language...
  
  , Shoulda & Test::Unit test frameworks support with test-runner GUI
• Specialized support for Ruby on Rails i18n
  Internationalization and localization
  In computing, internationalization and localization are means of adapting computer software to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market...
  
  
• Graphical Ruby Debugger
• Model Dependency Diagram for Ruby on Rails projects
• Version Control Integrations: Subversion, Git
  Git (software)
  Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on...
  
  , Perforce
  Perforce
  Perforce is a commercial, proprietary, centralized revision control system developed by Perforce Software, Inc.-Architecture:Perforce is a client/server system.The server manages a central database and a master repository of file versions....
  
  , CVS
  Concurrent Versions System
  The Concurrent Versions System , also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is a client-server free software revision control system in the field of software development. Version control system software keeps track of all work and all changes in a set of files, and allows several developers ...
  
   supported out of the box with changelists and shelved changes
• Open API for creating plugins in Ruby or Java

IntelliJ IDEA Plugin for Ruby

JetBrains also creates Ruby plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA is a commercial Java IDE by JetBrains. It is often simply referred to as "IDEA" or "IntelliJ."-History:The first version of IntelliJ IDEA was released in January 2001, and at the time was the only available Java IDE with advanced code navigation and code refactoring capabilities...

. Plugin provides similar functionality with RubyMine but also supports development with JRuby

JRuby

JRuby is a Java implementation of the Ruby programming language, being developed by the JRuby team. It is free software released under a three-way CPL/GPL/LGPL license...

.

See also

• Comparison of integrated development environments
• RubyMine is one of the recommended IDEs inside Ruby on Rails ecosystem

External links

• JetBrains RubyMine official site
• JetBrains RubyMine blog