# Adding an existing project to Aptana RadRails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-an-existing-project-to-aptana-radrails/126486>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 18, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-an-existing-project-to-aptana-radrails/126486 "2008-01-18T17:30:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Farouq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Farouq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Farouq)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-an-existing-project-to-aptana-radrails/126486/1 "2008-01-18T17:30:00Z")

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I’ve just installed Aptana RadRails and now want to import an existing  
project that was originally created in the Ruby console using the  
“ruby script/generate controller say” command.

I now want to import this into Aptana so I don’t have to use Notepad  
to edit the .rb and .rhtml files.

Does anyone know how to do this or know of a decent user guide I can  
read?

Thank You.

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**Author:** ![Farouq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Farouq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Farouq)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-an-existing-project-to-aptana-radrails/126486/2 "2008-01-18T18:29:57Z")

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just starting out, eh? 😉 glad to have you aboard.

From Aptana you can just create a ‘new’ project, uncheck the “Use  
Default Location” box, point it at the folder containing your Rails  
project files and tell it not to generate the rails application  
skeleton. This makes it just configure the project to point at the  
directory you specify.

I’d probably tell it not to create a webrick/mongrel server either,  
and just start that as per usual via the command line /script/server,  
you get better view of the logs from there.

Enjoy!

BTW RadRails is good but it’s quite ‘heavy’ and IDE-like. I enjoy  
using e-text editor for most Rails stuff - it’s a lot lighter for day  
to day use, but RadRails is great as an all round solution.

Joe

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**Author:** ![Farouq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Farouq](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Farouq)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-an-existing-project-to-aptana-radrails/126486/3 "2008-01-20T15:11:17Z")

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Hi Joe,

Thank you for your response. I’ll try that this evening.

I’m following the Agile Web D. with Rails book and RadRails  
was mentioned.

I’ll certainly take a look at the e-text editor as an alternative.

Farouq.