IDEA vs Textmate, and Rails 1.1 web services
Patrick has a well-reasoned comparison of IntelliJ IDEA and Textmate and how well this work with HTML/CSS. IDEA wins out for code completion and error highlighting, but Textmate wins for its light footprint and speed. Its good to see a balanced comparison of tools from someone who works with both.
Jamis highlights how easy it is to add web-services to your models in Rails 1.1, allowing you to do a simple xml web service with just this: [ruby]def list @people = Person.find(:all)
respond_to do |wants|
wants.html
wants.xml { render :xml => @people.to_xml }
end end[/ruby]
Very nice.