CodeGear (Borland) has announced that they are releasing an IDE for Ruby. They called it ‘CodeGear RAD Studio 2007, Rapid Development of Native Windows and .NET applications’.

Some information fro original site:

• Includes Delphi, Delphi for .NET and C++Builder
• Build AJAX powered websites with ASP.NET 2.0 and VCL for the Web
• Blackfish SQL - the managed SQL database with support for Delphi language stored procedures and triggers
• Delphi for .NET language support for parameterized types

CodeGear™ RAD Studio 2007 combines Delphi®, Delphi® for .NET, and C++Builder® in one environment for rapidly developing Windows and .NET 2.0 applications on and for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. You get all the tools you need to create AJAX powered web pages using ASP.NET 2.0 and VCL for the Web and database applications with local database connectivity. And deploy your applications, with no additional charges, on the Windows platform or your choice.

Another anoncement is ‘3rdRail, CodeGear 3rdRail Is the High Power Ruby on Rails IDE’:

• Write applications faster and with fewer keystrokes using intelligent Code Completion
• Easily navigate to where you need to be with Code Navigation and view all of a project’s interdependencies with the Dependencies View
• Merge the power of the command line with the ease-of-use and productivity of the IDE using CodeGear
• Improve and simplify application design with 3rdRail’s refactoring tools to reorganize application code without changing results
• Get a complete, turnkey Ruby on Rails runtime environment including databases, Ruby, Rails, and the Gem manager

There is good news, may be this products will be popular for developers.