CodeGear releases Ruby on Rails IDE “3rdRail”
CodeGear has released 3rdRail, a Ruby on Rails integrated development environment, that hopefully delivers some of the same convenient IDE experience as Delphi and other Borland/CodeGear products have in the past. It installs an instant Ruby on Rails environment, and features code completion, project management, refactoring and integrated debugging.
The Eclipse-based IDE runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, and a 30 day trial is available.
I’m pretty excited about it, as I dabble more and more with Rails, but I’m a little concerned about the $300 annual subscription for maintenance… I hate paying for bug fixes. I understand CodeGear’s saying “updates”, too, but when–especially in the first year–are any “updates” really anything but features that should have been in the product at release, or fixes for bugs that shouldn’t have ever seen the release date?
I’ll be downloading the trial and taking it for a spin, of course.
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September 30th, 2007 at 11:09 am
>I’m a little concerned about the $300 annual subscription for maintenance… I hate paying for bug fixes. I understand CodeGear’s saying “updates”, too, but when–especially in the first year–are any “updates” really anything but features that should have been in the product at release, or fixes for bugs that shouldn’t have ever seen the release date?
Bug fixes yes, new features (yes, not just things that didn’t make it into the first release - a roadmap will be available on CDN soon), but more importantly, Ruby and Rails are moving targets.
Rails is moving towards 2.0, and Matz is promising a Ruby Christmas gift.
Of course, everyone has to make their own decision, but the built-in first year maintenance and low price for the product + maintenance should be attractive to all developers.
David Intersimone, “David I”
VP, Developer Relations and Chief Evangelist
CodeGear (from Borland)
September 30th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
@David I: I appreciate you posting here. I started with Delphi v1.0 and have been a big fan of that IDE since the beginning. Overall, I’ve been very happy with the Delphi IDE over the years, and I’m eager to see how that translates into a Rails product.
You definitely make a great point about Rails being a moving target! I’m actually holding off on a couple of projects now because of the promise of a few new things in 2.0. I’m still a little on the fence about the cost of 3rdRail compared to other Rails IDE options that cost less, or nothing at all, but I do indeed have some Borland/CodeGear loyalty, and I’m certainly not afraid to put my money toward something if it does the job particularly well. I’ll be spending some more time with the trial (we just had a new baby, so most things are on hold at the moment), and I’m strongly encouraging others out there to do the same. I look forward to seeing the upcoming roadmap on CDN, too.
Thanks again for your reply.