Ruby and Ruby on Rails IDE

Ruby: “Say hello world to my little friend“

Java has Eclipse, .Net has Visual Studio (with ReSharper) and now Ruby has NetBeans! The NetBeans IDE is fast becoming the IDE of choice when it comes to Ruby development. It supports auto-completion, smart navigation and refactoring. In addition to this, NetBeans supports Ruby on Rails!

There are numerous ways to get up and running. In a previous post I suggested Instant Rails as a quick start. You can use NetBeans and Instant Rails together; Brian Leonard’s Blog explains how to do this. If you download the Ruby bundle of NetBeans you can skip some of the steps in Brian Leonard’s tutorial.

Wanted: A Good Ruby on Rails 2.0 Tutorial

There have been many enhancements to the Rails framework. These changes have effected the scaffolding, exception handling , collection fixtures etc. For details about these and other changes I recommend this page.

If you are looking for a Rails 2.0 tutorial, that actually works, then you should visit Fairleads. This tutorial works perfectly. It will help you get to grips with the basics of the Model-View-Controller design of Rails.

If you are using Windows use Instant Rails to get up and running quickly! Instant Rails is a complete package containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL. It does not need to be installed. It runs from within a folder of your choice. It will not modify your system. It is not the best looking system, but it does the job well.

 

 

Obviously you can use Instant Rails and still follow the Fairleads tutorial. Where Fairleads uses the ‘work’ directory you should use the ‘rails_apps’ folder. You should have your Rails ‘exchange’ application up and running in no time…