Oleg Shpynov, the lead for the IntelliJ IDEA Ruby plugin, announced JRuby support will be available as part of a public beta version due out in early September.

New Features will include:

• Scope based autocompletion and resolving
• Rename for local variables and fields
• Javadoc like help for ruby classes, modules, methods, etc
• JRuby run configurations support, that allows you to run scripts
  using JRuby interpreter.

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Background

What do I mean by externalizing? I really mean addressing separation of concerns and making an application more portable. If you think about it, a configuration is a module that other modules in the application depend on. By separating the concerns or behaviors of an application that varies between development, test, and production environments, you can more easily manage and possibly reuse the configuration and not repeat yourself (DRY).
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