It looks like RadRails, the Eclipse-based IDE that has become quite popular, has shut down completely. The codebase is to be incorprated by Aptana for inclusion in their open-source web development IDE, but it’s not apparent when that will be. As of today, radrails.org is now offline meaning that getting a copy of the software is much harder.

Those missing the plugin repository should be using the one by Ben Curtis at www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins.

Don’t hesitate to use Eclipse for Rails if you need a good replacement, or use the article that started it all to build your own environment. My upcoming book will recommend that in place of RadRails and will also mention several other free and commercial Rails IDEs.

I look forward to Aptana working on this project, as I believe they have the ability to make RadRails work the way it should work. I never used RadRails, nor have I ever recommended it to any clients, friends, or coworkers, but I do wish the RadRails team the best of luck in their new endeavors.

I’m proud to be sponsoring this year’s Karaoke For A Cure contest, a benefit for the Eau Claire American Cancer Society. We’re developing the web site and providing the domain and hosting this year. Visit the site here.

I’m spending more time with Ubuntu for Rails development and I started to miss some of the tools I use. I know RadRails has a Linux version but I’m still not completely happy with that offering.

I’m not releasing this on the public site just yet because I think I might want to test it out a little more. If you’re interested in trying this out, read on!

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I finally rolled out the new site and I wanted to take a minute to highlight some of the new things we’re doing.

1. We’re offering Ruby on Rails consulting and training. We’re having a ball getting developers excited about this hot new technology. If you’re thinking about taking on a new project, you really owe it to yourself to consider the Ruby on Rails platform. Contact me if you’d like more information.
2. We’re getting ready for the release of the Rails Deployment book. I’ve contributed a chapter that explains how to bring Rails applications up in a Windows environment.
3. I’m writing a book that will help application developers make their applications more visually appealing. I don’t want to say too much about it, although it’s definitely going to be helpful to some. Once the book goes on sale, I plan to start offering workshops and training sessions.

I’ve decided to release Rails for Eclipse to the community for free. Now you can use this great flexible development environment without building it yourself.

You need the Java Runtime Environment from Sun installed. If you don’t have it, the installer will show you how to get the files you need.

Read more at the source.

The new version now supports Page Caching. If you use this in production and you plan to use Page Caching with your application, please update now.

What is this plugin?

This is a plugin I wrote that is designed to be used when proxying requests through IIS or another web server that doesn’t gracefully handle reverse proxying.

See the original release post for more information on this plugin. Basically, it allows you to prefix the URLs that Rails creates with the base URL of your proxy server.

ruby script\plugin install http://svn.napcsweb.com/public/reverse_proxy_fix

Documentation is available online at http://www.napcsweb.com/rdoc/reverse_proxy_fix/index.html