RadRails

Create, test and deploy Ruby on Rails applications.

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Aptana RadRails is an integrated development environment for the Ruby on Rails framework

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Installing this plugin

This plugin is in the EasyEclipse for LAMP and EasyEclipse for Ruby and Rails distributions.

If you install this plugin on another EasyEclipse distribution, the dependent plugin Ruby Development Tools must be present in the EasyEclipse distribution, or must be installed separately.

To use this plugin, you need Ruby on Rails.

Getting started

Help is available for this plugin, in the Help > Help Contents menu in EasyEclipse.

However, the help is not completely up-to-date: Menu locations have changed, and some functionality is not documented.


To start using RadRails, you must install Ruby, Ruby On Rails, MySQL and a web server such as Apache. Rather than installing each component, you can install prepacked assemblies. We suggest:

• On Windows: Instant Rails: just download, unzip (at the root of your drive to keep the path small) and execute InstantRails.exe to configure the installation,
• On MacOS: Locomotive: just download, and drop the file in your Applications folder,
• On Linux: You must install MySQL, Ruby (usually included), Gems (Ruby's package manager) and Ruby On Rails. Best is to use your usual package manager (Suggestions for an all-in-one installation are welcome).

For a list of possible distributions or installation of Rails, look on the Ruby On Rails Wiki.

You must then configure the Ruby Development Tools (RDT) plugin, and the RadRails plugin:

• Select Windows > Preferences then Ruby > Installed Interpreter. RDT may have found a Ruby interpreter, but it may not be the one that come with Locomotive or Instant Rails; you probably need to add the correct one. Click Add. In the RubyVM home directory field, enter the location path to the Ruby intepreter: /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsMar2007.locobundle/i386 for Locomotive on an Intel Mac, or C:\InstantRails\ruby on Windows. Give a Display name, and save by choosing OK. Make sure that the new configuration is selected as default.
• Still in the Windows > Preferences dialog, select Rails > Configuration. Enter the path to the rails and rake executables, e.g. C:\InstantRails\ruby\bin\rails and C:\InstantRails\ruby\bin\rake on for Instant Rails, and /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsMar2007.locobundle/i386/bin/rails and /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsMar2007.locobundle/i386/bin/rake for Locomotive. Save the configuration information by choosing OK.

You can then switch to the Rails perspective by selecting Window > Open Perspective > RadRails, and create a Rails project by selecting File > New > Rails Project. All the files necessary for the project are created.

Useful links

• RadRails home
• RadRails provides support for the Ruby on Rails framework.

Changelog

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.2.2.2:

• Upgraded to RadRails 0.8.0.200707021211.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.2.2:

• Upgraded to RadRails 0.7.2.
• Upgraded to RadRails 0.8.0.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.2.1:

• Upgraded to RadRails 0.7.1.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.0.2:

• Upgraded to RadRails 0.6.4.
• Patched: Fix for bug 1479685 : Radrails is not the default editor for HTML, JavaScript and CSS anymore.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.0.1:

• Upgraded to RadRails 0.6.3.
• Patched: Fix for bug 1479685 : Radrails is not the default editor for HTML, JavaScript and CSS anymore.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.0.0:

• Initial release (with RadRails 0.6.1).

Credits and License

Credits: Kyle Shank, Marc Baumbach, Matt Kent

(c)2007 Marc Baumbach, Matt Kent, Kyle Shank, Christopher Williams, Aptana, Inc.

This plugin is licensed under the Common Public License 1.0 license.

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