RadRails
Having absolutely no spare time on my hands at all I thought it would be the right time to have a look into Ruby on Rails in a little more depth than I have done previously. The only way that this is possible is to actually get down and dirty and start writing some actual Ruby code.
Since I have all this free time on my hands, I figured it would also be worthwhile to do a little research into a reasonable Ruby editor (other than Vim of course). So far my search has lead me to RadRails.
RadRails is built on top of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). Being an Eclipse user for a number of years on my Java projects, I figured I would try and use the RadRails Eclipse plug-in rather than download the full development environment. While the installation went without incident (after having installed InstantRails first) I have had some problems with creating a project within my regular Eclipse environment. Due to the time factor, I haven’t had a chance to work out why this is happening just yet (but will do so when time is on my side again). As a result, I ended up downloading the full RadRails IDE and running it alongside my current Eclipse installation. This seems to make all the difference at present and based on first impressions, the IDE was worth the time take to download it. I would highly recommend checking this out if you have any interest in Rails development, especially on Windows.
I will keep you posted on what comes out of this, if anything.
