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I am new in Ruby. I have installed Ruby on Rails on Windows 7. I visited the following to choose a suitable IDE/Editor for writing Ruby code:

http://rubyonrails.org/download

I found the following Editors for Ruby:

VIM for Rails, RadRails, RubyMine, 3rd Rail, Netbeans for Ruby

I am familiar with Eclipse as I am using Eclipse for java. Can I use Eclipse for Ruby? If so, what configuration is necessary in Eclipse for Ruby project?

Ripon Al Wasim
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To save you some legwork, in Eclipse:

  1. Go to Help -> Install New Software...
  2. Click add (top right of popup)
  3. Enter a Name like "RadRails2"
  4. Enter the location as http://download.aptana.com/tools/radrails/plugin/install/radrails-bundle (for the full Aptana studio Studio 3, instead enter http://download.aptana.com/studio3/plugin/install)
  5. Click ok
  6. Restart Eclipse
  7. Go to Window -> Preferences. You will see Ruby is enlisted at left panel

You are done...

Now when you use the "New" menu, you'll have the option to make a Ruby project (among other things).

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  • OP, you've now answered your own question and edited mine. Please also accept my answer and upvote it if you have found it helpful, as the other answer is no longer valid. – Bryan Wolfford Jul 25 '13 at 15:12
  • I cannot install it from your address because it seems the package needs other aptana things. – edib Aug 01 '13 at 20:00
  • @BryanWolfford I am using Kepler and it is nearly impossible to use it with Rails. The text shifts around and is never properly aligned. Is there an alternative for eclipse? – JohnMerlino Jul 12 '14 at 02:31
  • http://download.aptana.com/tools/radrails/plugin/install/radrails-bundle does not work in Luna, it reports Aptana Core missing – Siddharth Apr 10 '15 at 06:03
  • I confirm this solution no longer work on Luna. Is there any other way of installing RadRAils? – Luís de Sousa May 11 '15 at 10:58
  • what's the diff between the radrailis-bundle and aptana studio studio 3? – Question_Guy Sep 17 '15 at 14:07
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You need to install aptana sudio eclipse plugin and radrails will be included.

refer to this Cannot Install Aptana plugin on Eclipse 4.2

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lutinwood
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I am using Eclipse Luna and installed Ruby(DLTK) 5.0 kepler from Eclipse Marketplace. I just imported my existing Rails project and seeing it working well with this. I am still exploring it. Hope that helps.

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Aptana is largely dysfunctional on Luna and there is no wholesale alternative. However, combining the following plug-ins one gets a good degree of support:

I run rails and rake in the command line; I also debug through the command line (e.g. using binding.pry). Editing .erb files is the trickiest bit, the Ruby editor is ok, but in legacy code I have a great deal of JS in these files; in such cases I use the JavaScript Development tools.

With this setup Eclipse runs considerably lighter than with Aptana.

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Ruby Development Tools, http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/ruby-dltk, is no longer available on marketplace.eclipse.org.

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