Since I was not really happy with all those dark TextMate skins out there, I created my own small bright one.
For me it’s far better to work with bright background + dark text, than to kill my eyes in terminal like environment. This theme works great with my AS3 development, with CSS, XHTML and JavaScript. It doesn’t mean it won’t fit in your Rails workflow, I just had no chance to test it.
Let me know if there’s anything wrong and I’ll fix it. I am sure the theme needs some more polishing, so if you’re interested, clone it on git and watch it for changes. And of course I’d be glad if you can help me with it, just fork it!
See the git repo here, where you can directly download it in case you don’t want to clone.

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IntelliJ IDEA Refactoring Updates.
As you may know, IntelliJ IDEA employs one of the best refactoring features you can meet in an IDE. Now the beta version 9.0.3 EAP adds something what amused me so much, that I decided to mock a small strip below.
It’s easy: when you have a variable expression you want to extract, you can use “Introduce Variable” refactoring feature. Now I noticed the last EAP is even able to find ALL similar expressions and replace them at once. Click the image below to understand what I am talking about.
IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 Introduce Variable features Click the image to see the full resolution mockup.
I really dig IntelliJ IDEA. And even I am 7/24 user, I still find new features which blow me away. If you’re unhappy with your current ActionScript IDE of choice, you should try IDEA today.