JetBrains Announces JRuby Support for Ruby Plugin

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.

In the future we’ll planning to have full JRuby support, with

navigation, resolve, autocomplete for Java classes.

Opportunity to run current script / test method / all test methods in class / all test methods in given location