Paul Krill
Editor at Large

Aptana touts Ruby, AJAX mix

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Apr 23, 20071 min

Aptana has added the Ruby Development Tools (RDT) project into the Aptana IDE and also has hired the lead developer of RDT, Chris Williams. The company announced the moves at the SDForum Second Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference in San Jose, Calif. this past Saturday. The IDE is an AJAX-focused (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) open-source IDE supporting JavaScript, CSS and HTML. It also features integration

Aptana has added the Ruby Development Tools (RDT) project into the Aptana IDE and also has hired the lead developer of RDT, Chris Williams.

The company announced the moves at the SDForum Second Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference in San Jose, Calif. this past Saturday.

The IDE is an AJAX-focused (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) open-source IDE supporting JavaScript, CSS and HTML. It also features integration with FireBug for JavaScript debugging.

Both the RDT and RadRails IDE project will be integrated into the Aptana IDE within a few months, Aptana said.

Adding RadRails and RDT to Aptana IDE makes “AJAX on Rails” a reality, Aptana said.

“With numerous Web 2.0 startups using Ruby on Rails, our embracing of these two projects will have a tremendous and positive effect on the development community,” said Paul Colton, Aptana CEO, in a statement released by the company. “We’re looking forward to providing these developers with a powerful, consistent, end-to-end development environment, spanning all layers: database, Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.”

Paul Krill

Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a reporter who prioritizes accuracy, integrity, and the best interests of readers, Paul is sought out by technology companies and industry organizations who want to reach InfoWorld’s audience of software developers and other information technology professionals. Paul has won a “Best Technology News Coverage” award from IDG.

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