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.

(Image from CodeGear.)

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