CodeGear releases 3rdRail, a Ruby and Rails IDE

Posted on September 17th, 2007 by Alex Gorbatchev. In Rails, Ruby. 3 comments!

Full Rails project support.
Rails specific refactoring, ie renaming a method in a controller will update all references as well as link_to and rename the associated view file.
Console with command completion.
Integrated Gecko browser with request monitor, DOM source, CSS and JavaScript

You can watch a screen cast here and download a trial for Windows, Unix and OSX here.

Here’s a quick 3rdRail overview in screenshots (flickr required).

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AndrÃ©

September 18th, 11:56 am #

I will look into this IDE when the OSX version is available, beeing a Borland fan using Turbo C/C++, Turbo Pascal, Delphi and finally JBuilder. I left the Borland camp when I discovered IntelliJ, but it’s exiting to see (Borland) Codegear showing interest in Ruby. The only thing I personally don’t like about 3rdRails is that it is based on Eclipse since I never have liked it.

AndrÃ©
Don

September 18th, 2:04 pm #

I was taught to never touch the 3rd rail….
Rails

September 20th, 5:34 pm #

In general they have some nice concepts going, but I’ve only had it installed for one day and already have come across a plentiful amount of bugs. It’s very rough around the edges. I’d wait until after a few upgrades.

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