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Komodo 4.1 Released
The dynamic language IDE takes on Rails21 May 2007
by Huw Collingbourne
ActiveState has just released an update to their Komodo IDE for dynamic languages (see my review of Komodo 4.0).
The principal new feature is better support for Ruby On Rails. I’d like to say more about this, I really would, but as regular readers know I have decided to avoid critical comment of Ruby development tools for the simple reason that, when not editing Bitwise, I am one of the developers of the Ruby In Steel IDE for Visual Studio - a fact which inevitably calls into question any claim to impartiality...
Suffice to say, I think Komodo is a fine IDE. While I don’t accept some of the claims ActiveState are making for the superiority of its Ruby On Rails tools, I will at least say that if I had to use somebody else’s IDE, then Komodo is the one I’d choose.
In short, in my highly biased opinion, if you want to develop Ruby (with or without Rails) in Visual Studio, you should use ours; if you want to program multiple dynamic languages or develop on different platforms, use theirs. If you don’t want to spend any cash, use someone else’s.