I was googling about and came across this article by Daniel Fischer. I kind of understood what he was getting at and it made me happy because:

a) I take the aesthetics of my working environment very seriously (which was one of the precursors of me leaving windows), and was glad that someone else understands that an IDE should be beautiful,

b) I’d clearly been so in love with netbeans that I had accepted her as “having a nice personality”

It’s true, when I first got netbeans I thought she was rather, how shall we say it…?.. plump, in the gui department. I remember the first couple of days trying to make a few changes here and there.. however, I fell so head over heals for her that I forgot all about this.

Until now.

Daniel called my gorgeous netbeans ugly, and while she’s not the cocoa supermodel that textmate is, I thought that was a little unfair. So, having been familiar with the gui for some time, I decided to trim some of the gui clunk out. Here’s what I came up with: Click here for a bigger pic

Here’s what I did…

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I use netbeans 6, milestone 10 (get it here as my ruby on rails ide now. I’m a mac user, having moved from windows last year.

I was gonna write a blow for blow comparison of netbeans against radrails, but I really see no point. I figured it’s best just to tell you why netbeans’ rails support is so creamingly good, but so you know I have evaluated both and textmate, firstly – here’s some points about the other 2…

Here’s some groovy ruby code completion to wet your appetite. Click more to read the rest of the article:

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I was getting the message: >This client is too old to work with working copy >’/Users/george/Documents/workspace/l2l’; please get a newer Subversion client

Every time I tried to use subversion in netbeans.

Thanks to some help from the developers, I found out what was going on…

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