Merb support

(I'm crossposting to users@... and dev@...,
please reply to dev@ruby only)

Hi folks,

Matt Aimonetti from the Merb core team expressed interest in helping to
integrate Merb in NetBeans, so hopefully by working together we can
provide support already in the next release. I'm copying here part of
Matt's email about the things that the support should cover:

"Running the specs from within the IDE (the most requested feature atm)
- run the dev application in a bundled state if needed. (ALL required
gems are packaged in a local gems folder and you start merb by using the
binaries in the local bin folder) TM doesn't support that and it's a key
feature.

- browse documentation/code hinting specific to Merb. (we'd have to help
you there)
- access/reproduce some of the thor/rake methods like bundling/generate
resources..

- access to merb console (merb -i)
- support for different app layouts (I don't think NB should overwrite
whatever the user generated like it's the case with a Rails app at the
moment)
- debugger support including from within the spec runner"

Does anyone have any particular things to add to that? I think the
terminal emulator, which we should have in 7.0, already covers at least
the merb console use case (we plan to migrate also the Rails and IRB
consoles to use the terminal emulator when it's ready). Likewise, the
new Rake runner in 6.5 should help in running /debugging specs, though
it could probably use some enhancements to make it even more convenient.

One thing to consider is whether Merb should have its own project type
in the IDE, or whether it should be something that can be added to a
Ruby or RoR project (I hear some people are using Merb in Rails
applications). Ideally I guess having both options would be ideal, so
the question is rather what should come first. Any thoughts on that?

Any feedback is welcomed,

Erno








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