August 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Speaker
Frank Luke / Big Creek Software, LLC
Topic
NetBeans
InfoWorld just published a review of nine Rails IDEs and editors, and rated NetBeans 6.1 the highest of the bunch. NetBeans, which is free and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris, even beat TextMate, the editor of choice of the Rails core team.
Frank will demonstrate the Ruby and Rails features of the latest version of NetBeans and will describe his experience using NetBeans as a Ruby IDE on a daily basis for several weeks.
NetBeans Ruby features include:
- Ruby project management
- Ruby source code editor with code completion
- Ruby refactoring support
- Support for Test::Unit, AutoTest, and RSpec
- Support for running Rails generators and Rake tasks within the IDE
- Ruby and Rails Debugger
Meeting Location
Coldwell Banker / Mid-America Group Realtors
8825 Northpark Court
Johnston, Iowa
Just north of I35/80 at the 86th Street exit.
GPS coordinates: N 41° 39.368' W 93° 44.378'
Wi-fi Internet access is available.
Dinner After the Meeting
If you can, please plan to join us for dinner at a local restaurant after the meeting.