Just as the name implies, Codepad is like Notepad, but carries another function of being acted as an online compiler or interpreter, as well as a simple collaboration tool. For the programmers, if you can’t find a right tool to share the source code with your peers, Codepad not only will run your code and performing on-the-fly syntax check, it also give you a short URL in which you can share it in a chat or email with your colleagues.

Currently, Codepad offering support for multiple programming languages from procedural language such as C to scripting language like Perl, and object-oriented Ruby, and etc. But if you simply paste the Ruby on Rails snippets, it will output the syntax error.

For the registered users, they can save the pasted code permanently in their accounts. What’s more, Codepad also includes features such as mark a paste as “private,” meaning the paste will not be viewed publicly and the option of downloading the raw code file.