JetGroovy and Ruby Plugins for IntelliJ IDEA are Released, Score an Instant Hit With Users

PRAGUE, December 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- IntelliJ IDEA's Legendary Intelligence and Productivity Now Available 
in Full for Groovy and Ruby Developers

JetBrains(R), the creator of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools
for software developers, is proud to announce the final availability of
JetGroovy Plugin 1.0 for Groovy and Grails developers and Ruby plugin 1.0 for
productive Ruby development.

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Even as the plugins were being developed, they garnered plenty of
positive feedback from users all around the world. "Impressions are
excellent!", "That saves so much time!", "Mixing Groovy & Java in the same
codebase is completely seamless," - this is what developers have been saying
about JetGroovy, which has come a long way towards making Grails a first
class IDE citizen.

"IntelliJ IDEA is simply the best Groovy/Grails IDE on the planet,"
­ concluded Graeme Rocher, the Grails creator.

"When we started working on this plugin, our goal wasn't just to add
another popular language to IntelliJ IDEA," said project lead Eugene
Vigdorchik. "We wanted to implement the best-in-the-market support for Groovy
developers, and we are proud to say that now they can develop Groovy with the
same pleasure as our Java users do. The Grails framework is also fully
supported, with dedicated visual tools and run configurations. We have much
more for both Groovy and Grails on our roadmap for future releases."

With JetGroovy, IntelliJ IDEA brings its award-winning,
productivity-boosting features to Groovy and Grails and provides unsurpassed
Groovy support in the Java IDE with:

- Cross-language support, enabling you to develop applications
both in Groovy and Java, with seamless support for all the features, and
to compile your project in a single step

- Built-in debugger, capable of working with both Groovy and Java
code

- Smart, context-sensitive, GDK-aware code completion with
cross-resolution between Groovy and Java

- Syntax highlighting, code formatting and folding

- Error highlighting, including: unresolved classes, unresolved
unqualified properties, incompatible type assignments, method calls and
more

- Auto-insertion of imports statements, parameter info, etc.

- Refactorings, advanced navigation and views

- GSP support, with Grails tags and inline Groovy coding assistance

- Dedicated Visual Application Model editor for Grails

- Automatic generators for Grails controllers, views, domain
classes, jobs, script and more

Ruby developers will benefit from the complete range of
productivity-boosting features brought by the final release of Ruby plugin:

- Advanced coding assistance with smart code completion,
including RHTML code completion

- JRuby support, with coding assistance and navigation

- Syntax highlighting, code formatting and folding

- On-the-fly code inspections with error highlighting and one-click
quick-fixes

- TestUnit and RSpec test frameworks support

- Ruby and Rails live and file templates plus intention actions

- Refactorings, advanced navigation and views

- Automatic generators for Rails skeletons, actions and Ruby access
modifiers

- Run configurations for Ruby and Rails applications, with various
application servers support

JetGroovy and Ruby plugins are available for the recently published
IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.2 maintenance release. Users of older versions can find
their upgrade plan or consider 30 day free fully functional trial for
evaluation.

To learn more about the plug-ins, please visit 
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/groovy_grails.html?ijGRpr and 
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/ruby_rails.html?ijGRpr, respectively.

You can download the plugins and get more information either from
IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Repository or via the built-in IntelliJ IDEA Plug-in
Manager.

About JetBrains

JetBrains is a technology-leading software development firm specializing
in the creation of intelligent, productivity-enhancing software. The company
is widely known for its innovative, award-winning Java(TM) integrated
development environment, IntelliJ(TM) IDEA (see details on the Web at
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/index.html), ReSharper and dotTrace Profiler
for .NET developers (see http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/index.html),
http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/index.html), and TeamCity, a continuous
integration and build management environment (
http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/index.html). JetBrains maintains its
headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic, with its R&D labs located in St.
Petersburg, Russia and Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, see
http://www.jetbrains.com/index.html.

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