Need an Ruby on Rails IDE

Rails
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Hello everybody,
I’m a new member on Ruby on Rails.
I’m friendly on using Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) IDE.
The VS IDE supports for Intellisense coding (that mean it will
automatically display a list of member variables or functions for a
class, struct, union, or namespace; the names and types of parameters
required by a function or attribute; and the complete declaration for
any identifier in your code. Developers simply select an item from the
list to quickly insert it into the code…)

For now, i’m moving on Ruby. I would like all you to help me on
suggested for me what is the IDE tool I should use to develope Ruby on
Rail that is similar with VS IDE or any Ruby IDE that supports for full
features: easy coding helper (intellisense), debug, deployment, …
Thanks for your helping.
Please mail to me at: [email protected]
Regards
hoangvista

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Most people use RadRails. However, having used Visual Studio products,
I must say RadRails pales in comparison. Refactoring? No.
Intellisense, nope.

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Eleo wrote:

Most people use RadRails. However, having used Visual Studio products,
I must say RadRails pales in comparison. Refactoring? No.
Intellisense, nope.

If you search the archives you will find that this subject has already
been
discussed to death. I guess that is true for any programming language
based
mailinglist that exists for at least 3 weeks.

There is a reason that Intellisense is not a strong point for Ruby IDEs.
Go
and look it up.

The thing that comes closest to an IDE is the Arachno editor.

http://www.ruby-ide.com/ruby/ruby_ide_and_ruby_editor.php

-Sascha E.

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I think the best solution on Windows is RadRails, www.radrails.org.

Or, you can try to buy a Mac Mini and try the stuff everyone is happy
about.

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Yaroslav Markin wrote:

I think the best solution on Windows is RadRails, www.radrails.org.

Or, you can try to buy a Mac Mini and try the stuff everyone is happy
about.

Thanks Yaroslav, Sascha E., and Eleo,
I have searched on this forum and found that the most people are favor
with RadRails, RTD and Arachno. Arachno is a commercial software, and
I’m looking for a free opensource software, and I think RadRails and RTD
is the best solution for me right now. Would you please give me a brief
relates to the difference between RadRails and RTD (Ruby Developer
Tools). I’m confusing on RadRails and RTD because they relates also to
the Eclipse. Moreover, would you please give me where to find the
tutorial document on using RadRails or RTD. Thanks in advance
Please feel free mail to me at: [email protected]
Regards
hoangvista

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Hoang Nguyen wrote:

Please feel free mail to me at: [email protected]
Regards
hoangvista

RadRails includes RDT. It used not to, but a few months ago the RadRails
team decided to stop re-inventing things that already existed in RDT,
met up with one of the RDT developers, and planned how to integrate RDT
with RadRails. That resulted in version 0.5.3, two months ago.

Victor K. has tutorials on installing and using RadRails here:

http://wiki.awebfactory.com.ar/awebfactory/published/RadRailsTutorials

regards

Justin

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Justin F. wrote:

Hoang Nguyen wrote:

Please feel free mail to me at: [email protected]
Regards
hoangvista

RadRails includes RDT. It used not to, but a few months ago the RadRails
team decided to stop re-inventing things that already existed in RDT,
met up with one of the RDT developers, and planned how to integrate RDT
with RadRails. That resulted in version 0.5.3, two months ago.

Victor K. has tutorials on installing and using RadRails here:

http://wiki.awebfactory.com.ar/awebfactory/published/RadRailsTutorials

regards

Justin

Thanks Justin,
As I known, the current version of RadRails is 0.6.5, does this version
of RadRails integrate RDT? Moreover, the interface of RadRails looks
like Eclipse interface, but the size of this software is smaller than
Eclipse. Would you please let me know if there are any relations between
RadRails and Eclipse? does it was build up in the same architect? And
which one I should choice: using RadRails or Eclipse + RDT?
Please feel free for many my questions.
BestRegards
hoangvista

8

The RadRails website explains all this very clearly. You should go
there, read a bit, and download it.

RadRails is a set of extensions to Eclipse. It uses RDT for most core
editing functions and adds all sorts of other Rails-specific stuff. It’s
available two ways: as an Eclipse plugin and as a standalone installer
packaged with a slimmed-down version of Eclipse. The standalone version
is a quick and easy way to get RadRails initially, but whenever you want
to upgrade, you’ll have to uninstall it and download and install a whole
new version. Not a big deal, but some people think that’s silly,
especially if they already have Eclipse for other things.

If you get it as an Eclipse plugin, you’ll need to learn how to add the
plugins and automatic updates to Eclipse for both RadRails and maybe
whatever version control plugins you use. It’s not hard at all, but it
does require some learning. Once you’ve got it figured out, Eclipse can
automatically notify you of updates to RadRails and download and install
them quickly and you won’t have to download and install a whole new
Eclipse each time like you do with the standalone. When you get it this
way, updates to RadRails take just a minute or two to apply.

Either way RadRails works exactly the same. And it’s very good indeed,
especially if you’re using it with Subversion or CVS for version
control.

Hoang Nguyen wrote:

Justin F. wrote:

Hoang Nguyen wrote:

Please feel free mail to me at: [email protected]
Regards
hoangvista

RadRails includes RDT. It used not to, but a few months ago the RadRails
team decided to stop re-inventing things that already existed in RDT,
met up with one of the RDT developers, and planned how to integrate RDT
with RadRails. That resulted in version 0.5.3, two months ago.

Victor K. has tutorials on installing and using RadRails here:

http://wiki.awebfactory.com.ar/awebfactory/published/RadRailsTutorials

regards

Justin

Thanks Justin,
As I known, the current version of RadRails is 0.6.5, does this version
of RadRails integrate RDT? Moreover, the interface of RadRails looks
like Eclipse interface, but the size of this software is smaller than
Eclipse. Would you please let me know if there are any relations between
RadRails and Eclipse? does it was build up in the same architect? And
which one I should choice: using RadRails or Eclipse + RDT?
Please feel free for many my questions.
BestRegards
hoangvista

9

Hoang Nguyen wrote:

of RadRails integrate RDT? Moreover, the interface of RadRails looks
like Eclipse interface, but the size of this software is smaller than
Eclipse. Would you please let me know if there are any relations between
RadRails and Eclipse? does it was build up in the same architect? And
which one I should choice: using RadRails or Eclipse + RDT?

Hi - I sent a response to this three and a half hours ago, but it hasn’t
got back to me via the list, so here’s the content again:

The current RadRails version is 0.6.1, and the standalone version (see
below) does integrate RDT.

http://www.radrails.org/

The standalone version of RadRails (which is what you get if you click
one of the platform-specific download links on the main RadRails page)
is built on the Eclipse “Rich Client Platform”, which is smaller than
the normal Eclipse Platform (Eclipse SDK) used as a basis for IDEs.

Rich Client Platform - Eclipsepedia

The developers of RadRails chose this approach to reduce size,
complexity, and startup time. Most users seem to be happy with the
standalone version. I think it was a rather strange choice, as the Rich
Client platform doesn’t include the mechanism for installing updates
that is part of the Eclipse platform.

But RadRails is also available as a plugin for the normal Eclipse
Platform. I haven’t tried this recently, but I see from looking at
Victor K.'s page on installing RadRails that this is what he uses.
He advises installing RDT before the RadRails plugin - I would have
expected the RadRails plugin to require RDT as a dependency, causing RDT
to install automatically when you choose to install RadRails (but I do
remember that this didn’t work once when I tried it in the past).

You are probably aware of Brian H.'s advice on setting up Eclipse for
Rails development (without RadRails), here:

Setting up a Rails Development Environment on Windows Using Eclipse | New Auburn Personal Computer Services LLC

The choice is yours! Be aware that you can have multiple installs of
Eclipse on the same machine, with different plugins.

If you just want to get started with Rails as quickly as possible, the
standalone version of RadRails is fine - you can explore other
possibilities in parallel.

regards

Justin

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Justin F. wrote:

The choice is yours! Be aware that you can have multiple installs of
Eclipse on the same machine, with different plugins.

If you just want to get started with Rails as quickly as possible, the
standalone version of RadRails is fine - you can explore other
possibilities in parallel.

Not sure why you would want multiple installs of eclipse. You can have
one install with multiple workspaces each associated with your selection
of “perspectives” which is what eclipse calls a particular development
environment. I find it very convenient to have integrated access to
SVN, Bugzilla, Rails, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, XML, and Database
management.

Check out these plugins:
web standard tools
subclipse
phpeclipse
Ruby Development Tools
Radrails
(commercial)
Bugzilla (Former home of Eclipse Bugzilla integration)

And there’s more on the way…
OpenLaszlo… http://www.openlaszlo.org/download/eclipse/
Ajax Toolkit… Eclipse - The Eclipse Foundation open source community website | The Eclipse Foundation

joe

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Joe P. wrote:

Justin F. wrote:

The choice is yours! Be aware that you can have multiple installs of
Eclipse on the same machine, with different plugins.

If you just want to get started with Rails as quickly as possible, the
standalone version of RadRails is fine - you can explore other
possibilities in parallel.

Not sure why you would want multiple installs of eclipse. You can have
one install with multiple workspaces each associated with your selection
of “perspectives” which is what eclipse calls a particular development
environment. I find it very convenient to have integrated access to
SVN, Bugzilla, Rails, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, XML, and Database
management.

Hi,
some plugins don’t go well with some eclipse versions so I imagine one
reason for having two installs would be to have the latest eclipse and
an eclipse to use with plugins that won’t work with the latest.

–
Agnieszka

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Agnieszka F. wrote:

one install with multiple workspaces each associated with your selection
of “perspectives” which is what eclipse calls a particular development
environment. I find it very convenient to have integrated access to
SVN, Bugzilla, Rails, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, XML, and Database
management.

Hi,
some plugins don’t go well with some eclipse versions so I imagine one
reason for having two installs would be to have the latest eclipse and
an eclipse to use with plugins that won’t work with the latest.

Thanks, Agnieszka - that’s a good point.

I mentioned the possibility of having more than one install:

a) in case the original poster wanted a copy of Eclipse to play around
with plugin configuration on,

b) in case he wanted to have a separate copy specifically configured for
Rails.

regards

Justin

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I think at first to approach to Rails, the standalone version of
RadRails is fine for me, and I can explore other possibilities in
parallel as Justin suggested.
All other suggested are very useful for me at the first time to enter
Ruby and Rails field. I would like to receive all your kind help in
later.
Thank you indeed again.
Regards

–
hoangvista

14

Hoang Nguyen wrote:

of RadRails integrate RDT?
The current version is 0.6.1, and the standalone version (see below)
does integrate RDT.

http://www.radrails.org/

Moreover, the interface of RadRails looks
like Eclipse interface, but the size of this software is smaller than
Eclipse. Would you please let me know if there are any relations between
RadRails and Eclipse? does it was build up in the same architect? And
which one I should choice: using RadRails or Eclipse + RDT?

The standalone version of RadRails (which is what you get if you click
one of the platform-specific download links on the main RadRails page)
is built on the Eclipse “Rich Client Platform”, which is smaller than
the normal Eclipse Platform (Eclipse SDK) used as a basis for IDEs.

Rich Client Platform - Eclipsepedia

The developers of RadRails chose this approach to reduce size,
complexity, and startup time. Most users seem to be happy with the
standalone version. I think it was a rather strange choice, as the Rich
Client platform doesn’t include the mechanism for installing updates
that is part of the Eclipse platform.

But RadRails is also available as a plugin for the normal Eclipse
Platform. I haven’t tried this recently, but I see from looking at
Victor K.'s page on installing RadRails that this is what he uses.
He advises installing RDT before the RadRails plugin - I would have
expected the RadRails plugin to require RDT as a dependency, causing RDT
to install automatically when you choose to install RadRails (but I do
remember that this didn’t work once when I tried it in the past).

You are probably aware of Brian H.'s advice on setting up Eclipse for
Rails development (without RadRails), here:

Setting up a Rails Development Environment on Windows Using Eclipse | New Auburn Personal Computer Services LLC

The choice is yours! Be aware that you can have multiple installs of
Eclipse on the same machine, with different plugins.

If you just want to get started with Rails as quickly as possible, the
standalone version of RadRails is fine - you can explore other
possibilities in parallel.

regards

Justin