Aptana + Radrails = Some-serious-ass-kicking!

I’ve checked out Aptana a while ago and although it is extremely strong on the Javascript and HTML side, it sucked if you needed to do stuff in any programming language other than Javascript. Radrails was a free Ruby on Rails IDE. Better than your average commercial products I must say, but lacking in a few areas since it was a “young” project. Oh, and both were powered by Eclipse. A lot of people have mixed feelings about Eclipse…

Now an extremely interesting co.lab is happening! Radrails and Aptana joined forces! w00t!! Both these guys were on the right track, but they both lacked “something”. Joining forces might make that “something” disappear! I am really, REALLY going to enjoy checking this one out as SOON as I have time on my hands. I might even venture doing my first Rails project… who knows?

Just so you know, I have not yet fired it up and checked it out! Will tell you more later once I’ve done just that, but for now this is just too an exciting co.lab to keep it quite!

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One Comment to "Aptana + Radrails = Some-serious-ass-kicking!"

• Charl van Niekerk said: On 04/05/2007 at 7:05 am

  I simply can’t use radrails because of the lack of keyboard navigation. I don’t really have any experience with Aptana but if their new product isn’t going to display the File Open dialog box when I press Ctrl+O they can forget about me ever using it.

  That’s why I hate IDEs in general; they rely on the mouse too much. An old-school *nix user like myself relies 99% on the keyboard.

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