Rails IDE : Aptana Radrails M7 Beta - First Impressions

I am an intensive user of Aptana Radrails M5 since July 2007 and have just updated to M7.

Interface-wise, I can immediately see the following changes :-
1) Rails Navigator has been replaced by Ruby Explorer
2) 5 obviously new icons on the tool bar
a) H - switch to Helper
b) T - switch to Test
c) M - switch to Model
d) V - switch to Views
e) C- switch to Controller

Curious, I selected my favourite project and click (a) - (e), nothing happened

Then, I opened the CustomerController which looks the same as in M5

Clicking H opened module customers_helper.rb
Clicking M opened module customer.rb
Clicking V asked for which action (using AS, N/A)
Clicking T opened customer_controller_test.rb

This is very convenient, Cool :-)

3) Rails Plugin no longer automatically goto the home pages but links are clearly there thus speeding up

4) Code completion/Code Snippet when one type

val or validates+ctrl+space displays a list wnd when selected inserts
validates_presence_of(attributes, :message => "message")

5) The Ruby Explorer is great in that via a tree structure, methods hyperlinked to the actual methods. This is a nice feature absent in M5.

This article was first posted on 28th September 2007, 11:30pm on the Ruby on Rails:Talk Google Group

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/e4365a0d52403271#