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