# We need this (codebubbles) **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 11, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/we-need-this-codebubbles/184998 "2010-03-11T17:56:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![juli](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@juli](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juli)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/we-need-this-codebubbles/184998/1 "2010-03-11T17:56:18Z")
I think something like this would benefit Ruby & Rails development a huge amount. I miss the capacities the Smalltalk (+Self) browsers enabled the facilitation of. The disadvantage was that it was an “entire closed world” but this is a more open idea… also it seems to integrate with Eclipse, which may mean RadRails would integrate with it. Would this mean we could browse class hierarchies of Ruby and directly execute code, etc? It’d be fantastic if this was the case. A dream come true. [http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles\_site.htm](http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm) Julian. ---
**Author:** ![juli](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@juli](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/juli)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/we-need-this-codebubbles/184998/2 "2010-03-12T17:47:34Z")
I saw CodeBubbles on Slashdot yesterday and had the exact same thought. Now I can’t stop thinking about how an interface like that could make my life so much easier. I’m refactoring a bunch of controllers with big blocks of nearly identical code. Oh to have the actions side by side in bubbles. I saw the discussion of it being based on Eclipse as well. I’ve never used Eclipse, or RadRails on top of it. Maybe somebody who has more familiarity with those projects could take a look? Les [codebenders.com](http://codebenders.com)