Tech Per

It is absolutely great, that JetBrains has open sourced a great deal of their plugins!

Today, I installed the latest and greatest Selena EAP (early access) version of IntelliJ IDEA, to get some of the latest flex plugin features. Sadly, my ruby plugin then got turned off, as it was not built for the latest IDEA EAP.

Well, this turned out to be absolutely no problem at all. I just did this:

1. Checked out ruby plugin trunk from http://svn.jetbrains.org/idea/Trunk/ruby/
2. Checked plugin.xml just to discover, that trunk already was upgraded to latest EAP
3. Edited build.properties
4. Set JAVA_HOME to JDK6
5. Executed ant
6. Dropped the custom built plugin into the plugins dir
7. Restarted IDEA

And I was on Rails again. A smooth proces, with no hassle.

Kudos, JetBrains, … kudos!