As part of my daily journey to different sites, I tried opening rubyonrails.org 20 mins ago and found this!!!
I immediately googled for this and found this TechChrunch Article.
Wow, how can someone let that happen ? Amazing!
Posts Tagged RoR
IDE’s For Ruby on Rails
Apr 4
So, in an attempt to get my dev environment setup properly for RoR development, I started looking for best IDE’s for RoR development. I am a heavy Eclipse user (I use Eclipse and Flex Builder all the time), I thought there must be some Eclipse based IDE surely. And I found RadRails which is an open source IDE for Eclipse or Aptana.
In my Previous article on Installing RoR, I spoke about this excellent article which I followed completely to build my first RoR app in just a few mins. This article talks about using the Xcode Organizer for RoR development. Now, thats a Mac Only IDE and I would rather use something that is Eclipse based as I am so much used to it.
So, are there any other better options available? What do you guys use?
Installing RoR
Apr 4
So, last night, I thought of installing RoR on my Mac. Luckily, on Leopard, Ruby and Rails are pre-installed along with some other RubyGems. Out of the box, you get Ruby version 1.8.6 and Rails version 1.2.6, the latest stable releases at the time Leopard shipped. Ruby releases are few and far between (it’s still at 1.8.6), but Rails has frequent new releases. All you need to do is make sure that you have the latest updated gems.
sudo gem update –system
sudo gem install rails
sudo gem update rake
sudo gem update sqlite3-ruby
I just ran those commands one by one and all done! It takes a while for these commands to finish though. There is an excellent article on Developing Rails Applications on MacOS Leopard which gives you a full tour of Ruby on Rails 2.0 on Leopard—starting with building a web application using the latest Rails features with Xcode 3.0, and finishing with deploying the application to a production server running Leopard Server. There is another great article for the older version (Tiger) . I dont think there is anything that these articles dont cover to get you started with building your first RoR app/scaffolding etc on your Mac.
However, if you are on Windows, you could use this One Click Ruby Installer for Windows. This would install the Ruby language on your Windows box. You would still have to update your gems I think via the command prompt. The next thing would be to install Rails. You can use InstantRails for Windows.
So, now, I have my Mac ready for RoR development, I can do some real work. Lets see how it goes!
Today, I decided I will be giving myself about one month to learn something new. And after some careful consideration, I decided to learn Ruby on Rails. As of now, I am absolutely naive about RoR. Never read any blogs/books/docs on RoR.
So I thought it would be a good idea to ask out here, if anyone out there has any useful tips/URLs for me to get started?
