Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Aptana RadRails

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Jul 30, 20071 min

A few weeks ago I mentioned Aptana RadRails and noted that, although I was able to download and install Aptana, I was unable to install the RadRails plugin on Windows XP SP2. I reported this directly to Aptana support, and they initially didn't know what could be wrong: the Aptana error log was not helpful. About once a week, I updated Aptana and tried to install RadRails. Last week, finally, it worked. My

About once a week, I updated Aptana and tried to install RadRails. Last week, finally, it worked.

My initial impression is that Aptana RadRails retains all the strengths that RadRails had in its previous incarnation, and is stronger still because of the JavaScript support provided by Aptana. I have to admit, however, that I’m not actively working on a Rails site right now: the Rails site I worked on last summer is in production with growing content, but it’s stable and we’re not adding features or changing the code.

I’d be interested in what other Rails developers think of Aptana RadRails. Leave a comment here, or email me at martin_heller@infoworld.com.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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