Tuesday, 18 September 2007

CodeGear Releases IDE For RoR

CodeGear has released CodeGear 3rdRail, an IDE for constructing applications with Ruby on Rails open source framework.

Borland, from which CodeGear was spunoff said CodeGear3rd Rail gives Rails developers their own IDE adding that developers have come to Ruby on Rails framework for its speed and ease of use in building Web 2.0 applications.

"We've been watching the Rails framework grow in popularity for the last year, and we worked with it ourselves, and we're really excited about the capabilities of the Rails framework. We recognise that there is an opportunity for somebody to provide a really solid tool for Rails and one that is built just for doing that," said Joe McGlynn, director of product management at CodeGear. "Everything in the tool is focused on just building Rails applications."

The framework has a feature called Commanders that provides varied capacities to ease the development process, including the ability to run scripts. Command completion and option completion functions are offered that are similar to code completion capabilities for writing code. "It's a keystroke that gives you a pop-up list of what you can do," said McGlynn.