techblog 

I’ve been using Eclipse for Ruby development (with the RDT) for a short while, and am quite happy with it. Having been scared off Eclipse a few years ago for Java development, I’d now almost happily move back to it from IntelliJ’s IDEA.

The only thing which would stop me is the rubbish support for file searching. Eclipse only allows you to search in your current workspace (or files attached to that workspace). If you want to search in files outside (for example, another project, or other resources), then you need to fire up a separate tool (which means that you can’t just open the file in the right place from within your IDE).

On the project I’m currently working on, this means that I often have to leave the IDE, and can lose track of where I was.

I noticed this bug report; it looks like it was decided in 2005 not to fix this issue.

Shame - perhaps we should write a plug-in? ;)