One of the complaints of many Java (and other) developers about Ruby on Rails is the lack of an IDE. If Apple is really jumping on the Rails thing, wouldn’t it be interesting to see Rails support in the next version of Xcode? I kinda doubt that it would happen, and I’m by no means an expert on IDEs. Just throwing the idea out there. What do you think?
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Aug 9th, 2006 at 8:46 pm Trey
What would be the significance? The fact that Java developers would be more likely to try Rails?
Aug 10th, 2006 at 5:07 pm Jason
I should have said “Rails developers who prefer working with an IDE” instead of “Java (and other) developers.” Because, I’m not talking about getting Java developers to try Rails. I’m talking about the fact that many Rails developers (not necessarily me) want a more robust and integrated development evironment than TextMate + CocoaMySQL + the command line.
I don’t really know much about Xcode, but I’m guessing that support for Rails would allow it to generate and manage all the files, run tests, do debugging, code hinting, manage the development server, etc. Basically, something like an Apple version of RadRails. Watch the RadRails Screencast and you’ll see kinda what I’m talking about.
Aug 10th, 2006 at 9:20 pm Trey
Fancy. I don’t see myself using one of those like ever. I think when I took my C class at Tech a million years ago, we might have used Turbo C or some kind of fancy-pants IDE with debugging and stuff.