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15 Jul 2007

Aptana IDE in Action Screenshot

Author: ceefour | Filed under: Beginner, Enterprise, JRuby, News, Opinions, Plugins, Praises, Rails, Reviews, Tips, Tools, Web 2.0

Aptana IDE is one of my favorite free development tools for Ruby on Rails web applications.

Below is a screenshot of Aptana in action… with a small just-created application.

783068064 bb076e98f0 Aptana IDE in Action Screenshot

Over the past few months, Aptana has been adding more and more cool features. In addition to the JavaScript, DOM, CSS, HTML, and AJAX Libraries (including Script.aculo.us) offline reference that has been there for a long time, relatively recent additions include:

  • Apple iPhone Development Support
    The Apple iPhone Development Plugin (beta) enables the Aptana IDE to
    increase your iPhone development productivity. You’ll need the newest
    version of Aptana (build 15637) to take advantage of it. [screencast]
  • Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Support
    Aptana IDE now offers support for Adobe AIR. Adobe AIR allows
    developers to leverage their existing web development skills (HTML,
    JavaScript, Ajax, Flash, and Flex ) to build and deploy rich Internet
    applications (RIA’s) to the desktop. [screencast]
  • RadRails plugin
    Along with long-time support for Ruby and Rails, the newest version includes support for managing and installing Rubygems, among others. [screencast]

Aptana IDE is really cool! Kudos to the Aptana team!

My other favorite is NetBeans by Sun. Yes I’m referring to the latest 6.0 Preview, which at this writing is NetBeans 6.0 M10. The NetBeans team is doing really good job too!

I’m a bit sad actually that there are at least two big open source groups developing two open source applications that do roughly the same thing. Both are rich-client platforms. Both is built on Java. Both supports other languages beside Java. Both are… There are just too many similarities (from the user perspective). One notable difference is that NetBeans bundles so many tools in one go (Ruby support, Glassfish, JRuby, etc.)

All in all, we’re living in a good world. There’s only one world anyway, so we can’t exactly say the opposite. icon wink Aptana IDE in Action Screenshot

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  • http://m1ss0.blogspot.com Misso

    Aptana and Netbeans are really very cool. I like too JEdit>/a> with some plugins for ROR.

    []´s

  • http://ameilij.wordpress.com Ariel Meilij

    I love NetBeans, but the new 6.0 version can get slow on smaller machines. I thought my box was neat, Acer 2.4 Mhz Celeron with 768 MB RAM, but it gets really slow running NB. I guess all those new SWING features add up!

  • http://hendy.gauldong.net/ Hendy Irawan

    Dear Ariel:

    Wow really…? Well RAM is a crucial factor I guess. I have 1 GB in a Core Duo 1.7 GHz and if I run other apps (e.g. Firefox, *shudder*) beside any of Aptana, NetBeans, or JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA I really won’t expect a good performance. I’m running Ubuntu Feisty here. The Java + IDE themselves can take as much 600 MB RAM, probably more, but maybe this is because of my improper (?) setup.

  • http://hendy.gauldong.net/ Hendy Irawan

    Misso:

    Yep, I love these too. :-) We’ve a bunch of really good editors for Ruby :)

  • http://diary.dmitry.eu Dmitry

    NetBeans the best for Ruby and Rails.
    Aptana is cool for Ajax or not simple JS.

  • http://www.tutorials.goodfind.org/ Programming Tutorials

    Programming Tutorials…

    I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

  • http://www.delimitdesign.com startoy

    there is also a large and comprehensive database of 800+ ajax scripts available with over at ajaxflakes’s ajax scripts compound

    thought i should add it might be helpful to others…

    here