# Eclipse ruby plugin

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-ruby-plugin/113446>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 31, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-ruby-plugin/113446 "2007-08-31T05:56:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![coolgeng\_coolgeng](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coolgeng\_coolgeng](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coolgeng_coolgeng)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-ruby-plugin/113446/1 "2007-08-31T05:56:27Z")

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How to user ruby-plugin in eclipse 3.2 to build a project?

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**Author:** ![coolgeng\_coolgeng](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coolgeng\_coolgeng](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coolgeng_coolgeng)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-ruby-plugin/113446/2 "2007-08-31T15:51:45Z")

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coolgeng coolgeng wrote:

> How to user ruby-plugin in eclipse 3.2 to build a project?

Hi,

What do you mean by “build a project” ?  
Ruby is an interpreted language so, building means to compile all  
classes and dependencies and it’s not the situation here. You write the  
code and after that, simple run it.  
If you mean something like creating a gem or a package, I think you may  
need to try rake.

[http://rake.rubyforge.org/](http://rake.rubyforge.org/)

Best regards,

Alin

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**Author:** ![coolgeng\_coolgeng](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coolgeng\_coolgeng](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coolgeng_coolgeng)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-ruby-plugin/113446/3 "2007-08-31T16:31:59Z")

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You don’t “build” it, you just run it.

You have to make a target for it, or you have to just right click on  
the file and run as ruby application. It’s really just easiest to  
right click (or use the Run menu) to tell it to run your current file  
as a ruby app. Yes it kind of sucks.

NetBeans 6 Beta (milestone 10 or something) has much better ruby  
support, but I think you’d still have to do the same thing. Problem  
with NB is it tends to blue screen windows boxes with less than  
perfect memory…

–Kyle

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**Author:** ![coolgeng\_coolgeng](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@coolgeng\_coolgeng](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/coolgeng_coolgeng)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 9:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-ruby-plugin/113446/4 "2007-09-05T09:37:33Z")

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On Wednesday 05 September 2007 10:01:36 BScott wrote:

> There is an Eclipse IDE called “Aptana IDE” for Ruby and they have a  
> plugin for Eclipse.

Plugin is called RadRails: [http://aptana.com/download\_rails\_rdt.php](http://aptana.com/download_rails_rdt.php)

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**Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 9:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/eclipse-ruby-plugin/113446/5 "2007-09-05T09:02:29Z")

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There is an Eclipse IDE called “Aptana IDE” for Ruby and they have a  
plugin for Eclipse.