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ActiveState Releases Advanced IDE for Ruby on Rails.


Award-Winning Professional IDE for Web Application Development Available Now

PORTLAND, Ore. -- ActiveState, the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages, released the latest version of Komodo IDE today at RailsConf 2007, introducing unparalleled Ruby and Ruby on Rails See Ruby.  support to the award-winning development environment. Komodo IDE 4.1 is a multi-platform, multi-language IDE for dynamic languages and Ajax technologies, now featuring the most advanced Ruby and Rails editing and debugging available in any development tool.

Powerful development framework Ruby on Rails is a popular choice for developers seeking to create sophisticated web applications with ease. Komodo IDE 4.1 extends this power and flexibility with state-of-the-art debugging, including support for Rails controllers and views, and a Ruby interactive shell, available on its own or from within debugging sessions. The feature-rich editor guides developers with autocomplete and calltips for Ruby and RHTML, and supports the multi-language and templated files common in Rails development. Komodo IDE 4.1 also introduces a Rails project template for painless project creation. New projects are generated with a single click and populated with a host of useful commands for database setup and application testing application testing - system testing .

"The last major release of Komodo redefined what was possible in a web development IDE," says Eric Promislow, senior Komodo developer. "But given the wild popularity of Ruby on Rails, we wanted to do more. Komodo IDE 4.1 is a definitive moment in Rails development, introducing more advanced tools and better performance than Rails developers have seen so far. There are new Rails-powered sites appearing every day. Increasingly, we expect those to be developed using Komodo IDE."

Komodo IDE's extensible architecture is another boon for Rails developers. Built on the Mozilla platform, Komodo IDE features XPI XPI eXtended Process Integration (J.D. Edwards)
XPI Cross Platform Installer (file extension)
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 extension support, providing the same extensibility as Firefox, with all standard Mozilla APIs based on XUL (EXtensible User Interface Language) A set of XML tags for describing graphical user interfaces. Designed for cross-platform porting and derived from the Mozilla open source project, XUL supports the following Web functions: cascading style sheets (CSSs) for styles, , XBL See XUL.  and XPCOM XPCOM Cross-Platform Component Object Model , plus ActiveState's own for Python and JavaScript. A new Rails-oriented library makes it easy for developers to customize Komodo, add new commands, and share them with others. Komodo IDE 4.1 includes full macro API documentation, further backed by Ruby tutorials and an active community sharing valuable extensions through ActiveState's community site at community.activestate.com.

As with previous releases, Komodo IDE features intelligent tools for regular expressions, team development, customization and unparalleled extensibility. The result is a powerful coding environment not only for Ruby on Rails, but also CakePHP and client libraries such as the Yahoo! UI Library Yahoo! UI Library (YUI) is an open-source JavaScript library, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as AJAX, DHTML and DOM scripting.[1] It also includes many CSS resources. It is available under BSD License[2].  and Dojo do·jo  
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. A single license covers users across Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Today, ActiveState also released the latest iteration of Komodo Edit, a free multi-platform, multi-language editor for dynamic languages and Ajax technologies based on the award-winning Komodo IDE. Both Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit are now available from www.activestate.com.

Komodo IDE

Komodo IDE 4 is a powerful, multi-platform, multi-language IDE for end-to-end development of dynamic web applications. Komodo IDE makes creating robust web apps fast and easy, with a rich feature set for client-side Ajax technologies such as CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets.

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 in full HyperText Markup Language

Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web.
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 in full Extensible Markup Language.

Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations.
, coupled with advanced support for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. , Python, Ruby and Tcl. Komodo IDE licenses are $295 U.S. and a single license covers users across Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. Learn more at http://www.activestate.com/komodo_ide.

Komodo Edit

Based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, Komodo Edit is a free, feature-rich editor for the full range of Komodo-supported dynamic languages (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl) and platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows). Like Komodo IDE, Komodo Edit also supports client-side Ajax technologies, including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML. For more information or to download, go to www.activestate.com/komodo_edit.

About ActiveState

ActiveState is the leading provider of tools and services for dynamic languages such as JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl. Millions of developers rely on ActiveState's cross-platform, professional development tools, high-quality language distributions, and enterprise services. ActiveState is owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, a publicly traded investment company focused on technology and healthcare sectors in British Columbia. Learn more at www.activestate.com.

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