After almost a year and a half of development it looks like the new JetBrains RubyMine 4.0 is the best yet. They boast far faster performance, the ability to drill deep into gems, a new UI, event log view, Rails 3.2 support, and a ton of other things. Hit up the What’s New page, and then head over and download the 30 day free trial.
Seems things in the Rails world are moving faster and fast, but it could be just me. Congrats to the Rails dev team for their release this morning of Ruby on Rails 3.2!
So we didn’t quite make the December release date as we intended, but hey, why break a good tradition and start hitting release targets now! In any case, your patience has been worldly rewarded young grasshopper: Rails 3.2 is done, baked, tested, and ready to roll!
Biggest thing in here for Ruby Newbies I think is the explain queries, which will show exactly what’s going on and help with debugging and performance tuning. Other things of note is a faster dev mode, an active record key/value store (look out noSQL databases!) and much more.
Via Riding Rails: Rails 3.2.0: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store.
If you’re a fan of IDEs for your Rails programming, head over to JetBrains as RubyMine 4.0 Beta is Available for Download.
The JetBrains guys have announced that the RubyMine 4.0 Early Access is Open to all. Check out the release notes for more details (including screenshots) or just grab it and go!
Remember a bit ago when Wayne E. Seguin of RVM Fame (I think he should legally change his name to that BTW) was hired by Engine Yard to do, among other things, help get Rails working properly on Windows? Well, looks like in only weeks of work, there is now Ruby and Rails on Windows in a Single, Easy Install.
If this works as advertised (haven’t had a chance to test it yet), then this is huge in giving Ruby on Rails a big edge into the Windows world, and eliminates the need for such hacky (sorry Curtis) solutions like this, previously the “best” way to run Rails on Windows 
Not only that, but this gives Rails on Windows almost the same advantage it has for development on Mac and Linux: stupidly low barrier to entry. Rails has always been easy to program in, but you had to get it up and running first. On Mac it’s been included in the OS for a few versions of Mac OS, on Linux it’s been as easy as “apt-get install rails” (or equivalent), and now on windows it’ll be as easy as “go to http://railsinstaller.org/, download and clicky clicky”.
My buddy Dan Kubb has a nice interview on the recent DataMapper 1.0 Milestone. DM is something that I have been wanting to look at forever, everytime Dan does his “let me just show you how to do this in DM instead of ActiveRecord” stints, I’m always amazed at how fast and easy he does things. Of course, I’m also amazed at how fast and easy things are done in ActiveRecord by people who are proficient in it Time to break out the Rails 3 and see how fast and easy the integration of DM into it is!
Anyway, a great interview and well worth the read.