Chapter 4. What's new

Ruby Development Tools Documentation - 0.6.0

Chapter 4. What's new
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Chapter 4. What's new

New in RDT 0.6.0:

Code folding
Syntax error Annotations and Problems View
The RI View is a frontend for ruby's ri command
Task tags (like TODO) are recognized and displayed in the Tasks View
Auto-complete of brackets, parens, and single/double quotes
Debugger: Code reload and inspection shortcuts
JRuby does the parsing behind the scenes

New in RDT 0.5.0:

Test::Unit view
RegExp view (originates from EPIC)
Editor: code completion with templates
Introductory Tutorial (Cheat Sheet)

New in RDT 0.4.2:

Runs with Eclipse 3.0 final
Editor: uses Workbench preferences for Quick Diff and Annotations
Outline: symbols updated (closer to java symbols)
Debugger: debug with 1.8.2 on windows

New in RDT 0.4.1:

Clickable stack traces in console (click to open editor)
Ruby Resources View updated, now more like regular navigator
Outline: improved and faster
Warnings and error annotations for ruby code (experimental, enable in preferences to try)
Editor: convert typed tab to spaces
Code Formatter: use tabs or spaces for indentation
Debugger: debug with 1.8.0 on windows

New in RDT 0.4.0:

Runs with Eclipse 3.0
Code-completion
keywords
All elements of current script.
Classes and modules from library.
Outline View
Show globals
Show require statements
Show instance variables
Show class variables
Selecting an element selects the text and reveals it in the editor
Ruby Preferences
Ruby Library Page to select a directory for ruby library installation
Ruby Perspective
Shows Outline View
Offers Outline view shortcut (in show view menu)
Shows new ruby project, new file, new folder when clicking "New wizard" icon
Ruby Resource View
Offers new ruby project, new file, new folder on right click of an element

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