The process for launching an AIR application from the command line seems straightforward enough – Oliver Goldman from Adobe has a blog entry describing how it is done. Of course, it would be great if things worked as described, but they don’t. If you follow his instructions, and you are on the Mac, you’ll get [...]
Category Archives: Rants
Aptana RadRails is a Big Bag of Suck
You might have noticed I was less than impressed with IntelliJ RubyMine. So I decided to give Aptana RadRails a try. One of my co-workers had already given Aptana a big thumbs-down, based on his experiences with it about a year ago. It couldn’t handle the most basic IDE functions, such as a complete list [...]
My RubyMine Feedback
Dear XXX, Thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment on RubyMine. To give you some background, I am a longtime Java developer who has just recently made the switch to Rails, and am now climbing the Ruby/Rails learning curve. I have prior experience with IntelliJ IDEA, as well as Eclipse. To answer the [...]

