RDT gets Refactoring support

Well the cat is out of the bag: Mirko Stocker and his cohorts have committed their refactoring support to RDT's Subversion repository.

This means we'll be able to roll out 0.9.0 with this support. Right now we're working to get it integrated into the build process, so that it will begin showing up in our new builds. I'm pretty excited myself, because I've had little chance to try out their work.

This refactoring support joins other recent work in RDT which allows us to do some occurence marking of variables, code completion and other exciting features (thanks Jason!). There's certainly a long way yet to go to get the tools polished - for instance we still have a hard time doing code completion (or much else) on a file which is being edited while the syntax is temporarily incorrect (the JRuby parser is great, but not so forgiving) - but we're constantly marching forward.

Look for 0.9.0 to come out sometime this month (we're aiming for the 15th)!

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