One of the things that Eclipse had, and lost, was ftp file transfer. I don’t really do ftp transfer anymore. I do a lot of ’svn commit’ then ’svn update’ on a different machine (or a svn hook script), and on occasion I use sftp.
But I still need to sync over ftp for some projects. And the eclipse plugin was several years old and targeted an ancient version.
Now, from Aptana, the people who took over RadRails, is ftp functionality.
http://www.radrails.org/docs/index.php/Transferring_Files_with_FTP
