Sriram Balasubramanian

From time to time a new programming language is born that makes the task of developing new (types of) applications easier. Ruby (born many years ago) is getting a lot of attention nowadays mainly due to Ruby on Rails (or RoR), a web framework.

CodeGear has just announced 3rdRail, an IDE primarily focused on Ruby on Rails application development. 3rdRail supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. To simplify your RoR application development with a mature database right from your IDE, CodeGear has packaged InterBase Developer Edition along with 3rdRail.

For InterBase, this is very exciting; being able to address an exciting technology for developers in a new space. As you may have noticed, this means that InterBase has just released support for the Mac OS X. For the last 7 years or so, InterBase was only available on Windows, Linux and Solaris. Now, we have ported InterBase to Mac OS X and bring its powerful feature set to that emerging platform. More on this in a later post.

Of course, support for 3rdRail with InterBase would not have been possible without providing native connectivity to Ruby. This is where IBRuby comes in. Thanks to its lineage from Fireruby, and some stupendous work from Richard Vowles, IBRuby provides everything that you need to work with InterBase from Ruby, RoR and 3rdRail. Thanks, Richard!
I encourage you to visit GrabTheRail and checkout the excitement! Don’t forget to checkout the cool demos!

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