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"Second: Although our Ruby support has historically been well received, based on existing low usage trends we are unable to justify the continued allocation of resources to support the feature."

I would say, not a whole lot according to their trend analysis.

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I don't agree with some of the things Oracle has done as of late, but that seems quite reasonable to me. If usage levels are quite low, then it is a waste of time to keep devoting resources to it.

Anecdotally, I don't know of a single RoR developer who uses Netbeans. Vim, Textmate and Emacs seem to be the editors of choice.

I would never have used Netbeans at all except for the fact that it had a decent Swing editor and JRuby support.

That being said, emacs is my day-to-day environment, Netbeans was never more than an occasional side tool.

Our office uses Netbeans for Ruby on Rails. It has worked quite well up until now.

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