# HELP Save RadRails **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 7, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-save-radrails/88067 "2007-03-07T22:08:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/patcito)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-save-radrails/88067/1 "2007-03-07T22:08:01Z")
RadRails is the best free IDE out there for RubyOnRails development and it’s easy for companies to integrate it into their development platforms as it it’s based on Eclipse. Please help save the RadRails development. I did a pledge on [pledgebank.com](http://pledgebank.com) that if 1000 people give 10$ to radrails I will give too. So if you’re a happy RadRails user, go here: [http://www.pledgebank.com/saveradrails](http://www.pledgebank.com/saveradrails) and vote for it on digg: [http://digg.com/tech\_news/PLEDGE\_10\_Bucks\_to\_help\_save\_RadRails](http://digg.com/tech_news/PLEDGE_10_Bucks_to_help_save_RadRails) Sorry for the OT 🙂 Pat ---
**Author:** ![patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/patcito)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-save-radrails/88067/2 "2007-03-07T22:57:14Z")
I use and (ahem) mostly enjoy radrails and have pledged ten bucks. However, I do this mere minutes before I go to download a daily build of NetBeans with its hot new rails capabilities (code-completion, refactoring, etc.) My co-worker has been using it for a week and says that it beats the pants off radrails (uh, well, he did say that the svn tool isn’t as good as subclipse and it doesn’t have the testrunner… gotta have my green bar!) I’m about to see if I agree. So, in short, I’m pledging 10 bucks to radrails for the good times it’s already given me. But I’m not sure radrails has a ghost of a chance to catch back up to NetBeans at this point. b ---
**Author:** ![patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/patcito)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 11:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-save-radrails/88067/3 "2007-03-07T23:39:21Z")
On 3/7/07, Ben M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > So, in short, I’m pledging 10 bucks to radrails for the good times it’s > already given me. But I’m not sure radrails has a ghost of a chance to > catch back up to NetBeans at this point. thanx a lot! ---
**Author:** ![patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/patcito)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 12:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-save-radrails/88067/4 "2007-03-08T00:07:23Z")
Well, I gave NetBeans about a half-hour and it’s Ruby comprehension is excellent (code-completion, being able to ctrl-click on an identifier to go to it’s declaration). However, it wouldn’t work with my fink-installed svn at all and kept squawking about it. I also find the NetBeans UI layout a bit confounding… though that just takes getting used to. Still, I’ll definitely keep an eye on their progress… It’s a shame that RadRails is wandering into oblivion. Seems like the eclipse foundation should take note and try to allocate some resources to their “Best Open Source Eclipse-based Developer Tool”-winner. b ---
**Author:** ![patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/patcito)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-save-radrails/88067/5 "2007-03-08T00:30:26Z")
and don’t forget to digg it, it’s the only way to get people attention: [http://digg.com/tech\_news/PLEDGE\_10\_Bucks\_to\_help\_save\_RadRails](http://digg.com/tech_news/PLEDGE_10_Bucks_to_help_save_RadRails) ---
**Author:** ![patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/patcito)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 9:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-save-radrails/88067/6 "2007-03-08T09:43:17Z")
On 3/8/07, Ben M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Well, I gave NetBeans about a half-hour and it’s Ruby comprehension is > excellent (code-completion, being able to ctrl-click on an identifier to > go to it’s declaration). > > However, it wouldn’t work with my fink-installed svn at all and kept > squawking about it. Had the same issue here. Found a solution on [http://www.koontzfamily.org/david/blog/?p=361](http://www.koontzfamily.org/david/blog/?p=361), seems you can specify the SVN path in NB. On my box it seems like /etc/profile, which normally sets the path, isn’t loaded when i run NB (unless I start NB from a shell). HTH, Isak ---
**Author:** ![patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@patcito](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/patcito)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-save-radrails/88067/7 "2007-03-08T19:02:40Z")
Isak H. wrote: > On 3/8/07, Ben M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > However, it wouldn’t work with my fink-installed svn at all and kept > > squawking about it. > > Had the same issue here. Found a solution on > [http://www.koontzfamily.org/david/blog/?p=361](http://www.koontzfamily.org/david/blog/?p=361), seems you can specify > the SVN path in NB. Unfortunately, that’s what I tried straight-off… NB just stubbornly thinks that what’s at /sw/bin/svn isn’t a subversion 1.4.2 executable. b