Aptana Studio crashing

Well, I’m a little bit dissappointed. I’ve been using the new Aptana Studio 1.2.1 for a couple of days now, and there are apparently still some kinks to be worked out. I just had the studio crash on me again. That’s the second time today, and it happened once yesterday as well. There are no warnings, no errors, I just clicked on a file to open it, the application freezes up, and after about 10 seconds, it’s just gone. Like it never existed. And to make things even more painful, when I open it back up, it has forgotten several of the changes I’ve made. Any saved files are not lost, but any changes I’ve made to my workspace, perspectives, preferences and so on are just forgotten. I don’t think it’s a memory issue. I’ve seen the errors before that the memory filled up and you need to restart eclipse, but in these cases, I get nothing. I’ve experienced the same thing on both Windows XP and Mac OSX. Aparently the changes to preferences are only saved when you close Aptana (or eclipse), so now I just have to remember to shut down after every preference change . . . What a pain.

Another thing I’d really like to see one of these days is a better code formatter for Ruby and PHP. If you’ve ever used the Java code formatter, you’ve seen how many different options there are. But with Ruby and PHP, it’s quite minimal. I don’t want much more, but it would be nice for example to be able to specify which type of blocks you prefer do..end vs {} for example. And set better alignment when you have a long parameter list that breaks over multiple lines. Most of us like to do something like this:

my_spiffy_method param_one,
                 param_two,
                 param_three

Instead of this:
my_other_cool_method param_a,
param_b,
param_c

The later is what the Ruby editor in Aptana does for you.