An awesome Rails Tool
March 23rd, 2006
Well, I was planning on spacing out the posts of what’s in my toolbox, but another tool in my toolbox called RadRails just won the Best Developer Tool award at EclipseCon. So, it seems like now is a good time to mention it.
RadRails was put together in an incredibly short time by a team of three developers that are in college. Very impressive. It also includes the work of several others including the Eclipse Framework, RDT plugin and Subclipse plugins.
One of the coolest new features they just introduced is a key binding to intelligently switch between your Controllers and your Views based on the Rails naming conventions. This is a great time saver. This is just one of those “Why didn’t anybody else think of that” types of features that is a welcome addition to an already wonderful tool.
Other notable features include:
- An Outline view of your ruby files
- Realtime syntax checking
- Color syntax highlighting for CSS, Javascript, HTML, RHTML and Ruby files
- An RI documentation viewer for looking up Ruby APIs
- Server management tools for starting and stopping your WEBbrick servers
- Integrated debugging tools
- Source code generator tools
- And much more…
If you haven’t checked it out, I highly recommend it. I developed The GiftHat.com entirely using this tool. Give it a try. You won’t be disappointed.
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