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The high power Ruby on Rails™ IDE

3rdRail is a complete, intuitive integrated development environment (IDE) that delivers the power needed to dramatically accelerate Ruby on Rails Web Development.

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3rdRail™

3rdRail is a innovative and powerful IDE with features built from the ground up for Ruby on Rails development.

  • Write applications faster, with fewer keystrokes using intelligent Code Completion
  • Easily switch between the command line and IDE with Commanders
  • Improve and simplify application design with 3rdRail's refactoring tools
  • Easy navigation to where you need to be with Code Navigation and view all of a project's interdependencies with the Dependencies View
  • Problem Detection and Correction provides detection of common Ruby and Rails coding errors.
  • A complete, turnkey Ruby on Rails runtime environment including databases, Ruby, Rails, and the Gem manager

Streamline development of dynamic, database-backed Web applications

3rdRail combines the straightforward yet powerful syntax of the Ruby language and the robust Rails framework with advanced productivity tools, 3rdRail streamlines the creation of database-backed web applications while retaining the full dynamic nature of Ruby programming. 3rdRail understands how a Ruby on Rails application works and the context of what the developer is doing.

3rdRail helps you write programs with accuracy and fewer keystrokes because you no longer need to remember fine points such as object types, methods and method signatures. 3rdRail predicts likely expectations based on conventions and semantics and is able to understand the context of what you are doing. Special productivity wizards combine numerous related steps into single operations, and embedded Web development tools - including Mozilla browser, JavaScript debugging, Document Object Model inspection and request monitoring - help developers easily edit and manage all website artifacts.

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Congratulations on the release of 3rdRail. As the author of Ruby and a developer, I am more than pleased that CodeGear's development tool joins the Ruby developer community. As Borland tools helped me a lot when I just began to do programming, it is a great honor to see that a CodeGear tool supports the language that I designed. 3rdRail has a well designed and very impressive interface which covers programmers at all levels from beginners to experts. I expect 3rdRail will contribute greatly to Ruby's future.

Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of the Ruby programming language


This [3rd Rail] opens up a whole new world for things like advanced refactorings. And it provides an environment that's familiar to anyone coming from IDE-heavy environments like .NET or J2EE. It's encouraging to see the Rails ecosystem extend itself to include commercial tool vendors. I heartily welcome CodeGear to the arena and I'm excited to see what they come up with. It's a wonderful time for users and vendors alike in the world of Rails.

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails


CTC has been engaged in a standardization of system development and operation and has formed a framework named 'SINAVI'. We use Ruby and Ruby on Rails for providing high quality systems for enterprises within the framework. For fulfillment of such tasks, a multivendor collaboration and an IDE which makes systems development easier and faster are indispensable. We expect that this collaboration and the delivery of 3rdRail in Japan will accelerate the promotion of Ruby in enterprise environments.

David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails.


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