Looking at Ruby n Rails

So this evening, while watching Take Me Out, I tried installing Ruby n Rails on windows.

Not as straight forward as I thought it would be, I knew I wanted to use Aptana 3 as,  yes it’s Eclipsed based, but I don’t mind Eclipse, use to it through using Flash Builder.

So I had that installed, next I needed to install Ruby, so I went to the RubyInstaller and downloaded the installer. Run that and that was fine, next I needed a good tutorial to step through and get everything up and running.

Searching around I found this good one Pragmatic Studios, while not using the latest version of Ruby it was a good step through tutorial.

After going through each it helps you install everything, set up a example Todo app and finally run the app.

Next I had to get the Todo app to run in Aptana. This was pleasantly easy, all I had to do was create a new project from an existing folder, then point to the same folder that the  Todo app was created by Rails, and that’s all.

From there I could start looking through the code, working out how a Rails app is structured, what each part does and how to extend it.

Now time to start reading my Ruby n Rails book.