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RadRails - Eclipse-based IDE for Ruby on Rails
by Jordan Running Oct 6th 2005 at 4:20PM
Despite all the talk of kool-aid, Ruby on Rails is a serious contender for Next Big Thing in web development. Unfortunately, while the framework is improving by leaps and bounds, the tools available for working with it haven't quite been keeping up; but that many be changing. RadRails is a new IDE built specifically for developing Ruby on Rails web apps. It's based on the venerable Eclipse cross-platform open source IDE and, though it's only up to version 0.2, includes Rails-specific goodies like WEBrick server setup, wizards for generating models and controllers, and a "Rails navigator," presumably for navigating the filesystem of a Rails project.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
