Comments on: RailsConf 2008 – Saturday Afternoon Summary

By: David Lowenfels

David Lowenfels — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:28:51 +0000

ScrumNinja is now in public alpha… lots more features to try out.

By: Lori Olson

Lori Olson — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:16:57 +0000

If you have any questions about how to do things in 3rdRail, check out the newsgroups at fora.borland.com. I’ve been using 3rdRail since it was first released, and frankly, I was one of the people jumping up and down and yelling at CodeGear to DO something about Ruby and Rails two and a half years ago, when I first starting doing Rails development.

CodeGear is commiting to quarterly updates of 3rdRail, so if you have any feature requests, get them in.

I’m also just getting ready to release the new-and-improved Rails-based web client for CodeGear’s QualityCentral application. Keep an eye out on the newsgroups for the announcement.

By: drewblas

drewblas — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:14:10 +0000

David: I fixed your name, sorry!

Bill: I actually assumed that it had test runners, because that’s very basic. I haven’t yet tested 3rd Rail in more detail, but that IS a pretty big deal. We’ll have to see if other features make up for that shortcoming.

By: David Lowenfels

David Lowenfels — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:07:41 +0000

thanks for mentioning scrumninja. you’ve got my last name mixed up slightly

By: Bill Kayser

Bill Kayser — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:44:41 +0000

Good observations on CodeGear. I’m a huge eclipse fan and am using radrails but it’s not very stable and I get very frustrated. Things like code completion can take down the whole IDE.

CodeGear looks good. There is a lot of overlap with RadRails which is fine. It will really come down to whether or not it actually works.

One huge deficiency for me is the lack of the unit test runner. The JUnit like test runner in RadRails is really essential for me, and a big deficiency in the other ides. I like seeing my test results easily, selecting one and rerunning it with one click. I’m doing that all the time.

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