We released RadRails 0.7.0 this week and it's the first version of RadRails we built with the Ant scripts I contributed. RadRails is an Eclipse-based Ruby on Rails IDE.

Apparently Eclipse 3.2 couldn't export RadRails any more (the old deployment method) so the scripts were rushed into action and I managed to get up to speed relatively quickly with only a few minor errors to fix in the scripts.

The next step is to get RadRails building nightly on a build machine and then running a test suite as well. My main priority is making sure RadRails' deployment story is solid so that we can deliver a solid product. Then I'm going to be contributing new features and bugfixes.

One thing that people seem to forget: RadRails isn't even 1.0 yet. It's still under heavy development, new features are added all the time and it's probably about beta quality. We want to keep it usable so people can use it to do work, of course, but bugs are going to happen and they'll be fixed in the following releases if you let us know about them. :) Please report any bugs you find either on our trac database or on IRC (freenode #radrails).

When a regression test suite is in place the number of bugs in releases will probably be reduced. We also want to post integration builds so that people can test them before we make an official release. All of these things will help make RadRails an even better Ruby on Rails IDE than it is now.

For more details on the release see the RadRails blog and listen to the podcast.

For more information on the RadRails build scripts I created, see my post Building RadRails with Ant.