Perfect Rails emacs ide

Rails
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Hello list!

I currently use emacs for planning and notes (PlannerMode). Been using
RadRails for Ruby/Rails dev but can’t stand it anymore. I’d like to set
up
emacs to be a powerful rails/ruby ide.

However, I’m confused - I don’t know where to start. I’ve seen these two
screencasts:

Are these from the same emacs modes?

I’ve tried the emacs-rails but had some troubes with dependencies and
also
couldn’t figure out yet how to add the file navigation widget.

If someone could point me to the right direction on where I could find
the
right set of modes and elisp scripts to build that cool and productive
ide
of the screencasts, I would be grateful!

Marcelo.

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Oh, I forgot to mention that I’m on Windows XP.

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Hi Marcelo:

Both Marshall (1st screencast) and the second screencast are using
the emacs-rails package along with ECB (emacs code browser). Marshall
goes off to show a bunch of other emacs packages as well.

You can download the emacs-rails and ecb if you don’t already have
it. You’ll also need emacs 22 (there’s a emacs 22 package for
windows) for emacs-rails to work. Xemacs (which I prefer) has a nice
package manager and the windows installation comes with a lot of stuff
working out of the box compared to setting up emacs, but is
unfortunately not completely compatible with emacs-rails and some
other emacs packages (like nxml which Marshall shows a bit of).

I’ve wanted to make a suped up mode for ruby as well as rails that
was drop dead easy to install but never really got the project going.

Forrest

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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Marcelo de Moraes S. wrote:

I’ve tried the emacs-rails but had some troubes with dependencies and also
couldn’t figure out yet how to add the file navigation widget.

The file navigation is likely ecb:

http://ecb.sourceforge.net/

It required a cvs build of Emacs last time I installed it.

–
Greg D.
Cyberfusion Consulting
http://cyberfusionconsulting.com/

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Thank you!

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right set of modes and elisp scripts to build that cool and productive
ide of the screencasts, I would be grateful!

This is useful :

I’ve don’t use ECB to browse my project, I find using the speedbar plus
toggle.el gives me all I need. You may like to try emacs-rails mode
without ECB to begin with, as installing that package is an added
complexity.

Hope this helps,

Chris