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Install Rails Development IDE Aptana/RadRails on Ubuntu 8

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twan 2 months ago

Aptana/RadRails is a nice development environment (is there a better one?) 
with sytnax highlighting, some refactoring support and generators for Ajax 
and Ruby on Rails development.

This text should explain how to install it on Ubuntu 8 (probably also 7), 
because there are some pitfalls on the way. The greatest one, is to use the Aptana
standalone version advertised on the Aptana website, after fooling around with 
it, there seems to be quite some issues with the cairo, swt, gtk, mozilla 
plugin part, especially when Firefox 3 is installed.

The easier way is to install the Eclipse plugin version:

  * Install your favourite Java runtime (e.g. "sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre")
  * Install Ecplise "sudo apt-get install eclipse" 
  * startup the ecplise IDE
  * go to the help menu, select "Software Update", select "Find and Install..." 
  * go to "Search for new features to install" 
  * click on "Next", the "Install" dialog should open
  * add a "New Remote" site "http://update.aptana.com/update/studio/3.2/" 
  * select the new added remote site and click "Finish" 
  * the plugin repository should update and "Aptana" plugin should be offered 
    to be installed
  * install the "Aptana" plugin
  * the Eclipse IDE restarts 
  * select "Aptana Studio Start Page" from the Eclipse help menu
  * on the Aptana Start Page there is a link to install the "RadRails" plugin
  * install RadRails
  * the Eclipse IDE restarts
  * it asks the paths to your ruby installation, setup you prefered one

Now everything should be plugged in and ready to import or generate Rails projects...

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