Yesterday at work, we held a Hack Day (for those unfamiliar, you get 24 hours to build a prototype on just about anything you want). My team chose to build a company intranet in Ruby on Rails. Why Rails? Because it’s fast and easy and is my language + framework of choice for web development. Gregg, one of our top Java guys and my teammate, suggested we use RadRails as our IDE. I’d downloaded it at home but never had a chance to test it out. Plus, I’m not usually a big Eclipse fan (RadRails is based on Eclipse). When the day was done, I was very impressed with what RadRails did.

RadRails really works as the center of your development environment, providing things like a server and quick access to generators to get development moving. It makes already fast things (like script/generate tasks) even faster (no need to leave the environment and jump to a terminal to run that script). Bottom line: RadRails streamlines your Ruby on Rails development workflow. Go get it!

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