Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: First Steps
Chapter 3: Your First Application
Chapter 4: Writing Ruby Code
Chapter 5: Coding Rails Views
Chapter 6: Debugging Your Application
Chapter 7: RadRails Views
Chapter 8: Configuration Reference
Chapter 9: Other Useful Plugins
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Getting Started
  • Do I Need an IDE for Rails Development?
  • About Aptana RadRails
  • How Can Aptana RadRails Help Me?
  • Prerequisites
    • Java Virtual Machine
    • Ruby and Rails
      • Components to Install
      • Installing Rails if you already have Ruby and RubyGems
      • Installing Ruby and Rails on Linux
      • Installing Ruby and Rails on OS X
      • Installing Ruby and Rails on Windows
      • Supported Databases
  • Installing Eclipse
  • Installing Plugins in Eclipse
    • RadRails Installation
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: First Steps
  • Basic Configuration
    • Eclipse Preferences Dialog
    • File Encoding
    • Connecting through a Proxy
    • Ruby Environment
    • Rails Environment
  • Creating a Rails Project
  • Importing an Existing Project into RadRails
  • Working with Perspectives and Views
    • Eclipse Perspectives
    • Eclipse Views
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Your First Application
  • Basic Views
    • The Ruby Explorer View
      • Ruby Explorer Top Icons
    • The Console View
  • The Generators View
    • Generating Models and Migrations
    • Running Your Migrations
    • Generating Scaffolds
  • Starting Your Server
  • Monitoring Your Server
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: Writing Ruby Code
  • A Quick Note about Keyboard Shortcuts
  • The Ruby Editor
  • Syntax Highlighting
  • Outlining the Structure of Your Ruby Code
    • Quick Outline
    • Type Hierarchy
    • General Outline View
  • Code Folding
  • Code Formatting
    • Indenting Code Blocks
    • Commenting Code Blocks
  • Code Completion
  • Code Templates
    • Defining Your Own Code Templates
  • Navigating Your Code
    • General Source Navigation Tools
    • Matching Brackets
    • Declarations of Classes, Modules, Methods, and Variables
    • Navigating Your MVC Code
    • Opening Types and Resources
  • Refactoring
    • Generate Accessors
    • Generate Constructors
    • Convert Local Variable to Field
    • Encapsulate Field
    • Extract Method
    • Extract Constant
    • Inline Method
    • Rename
    • Split Local Variable
  • Searching in Ruby Projects
    • Searching within the Current File
    • Searching across Multiple Files
    • Ruby Search
      • Call Hierarchy
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Coding Rails Views
  • ERB/RHTML Templates
    • Views Navigation
    • View Templates
    • HTML Code Assist
    • Refactoring into Partials
    • Outline
  • Editing HTML Files
  • Editing JavaScript Files
  • Editing CSS Files
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Debugging Your Application
  • Getting Started with Debugging
    • Debugger Configuration
    • Starting Your Server
    • Debugging a Ruby Script
  • Using Breakpoints
    • The Breakpoints View
      • Setting Generic Breakpoints for Exceptions
      • Exporting and Importing Breakpoints
  • The Debug View
    • The Debug View and the Stack Frame
    • Stepping through Your Application
  • Variables and Expressions
    • The Variables View
    • The Expressions View
  • The Display View
  • Useful Tools for Debugging
    • Linking Errors and Source Code from the Browser
    • Tailing the Log Files
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: RadRails Views
  • Opening the RadRails Views
  • Documentation Views
    • Ruby Interactive (RI) View
    • Ruby Core, Ruby Standard Library, and Rails API
  • Servers View
    • Starting a Server with Additional Arguments
    • Managing Non-Rails Servers from the Servers View
  • Launching External Tools from Eclipse
  • Rails Console
  • Rails Plugins View
  • RubyGems View
  • Rake Tasks
  • Generators View
  • Rails Shell View
  • RegExp View
  • Problems View
  • Tasks View
  • Test::Unit View
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Configuration Reference
  • General
    • Appearance
    • Editors
      • Annotations
      • Linked Mode
      • Quick Diff
      • Spelling
    • Keys
    • Workspace
  • Aptana
    • Browsers/User Agents
    • Editors
      • Code Assist
      • Colors
      • Folding
      • Formatting
      • Typing
      • RHTML Templates
    • Start Page
  • Rails
  • Ruby
    • Appearance
    • Editor
      • Syntax Coloring
    • Errors/Warnings
    • Task Tags
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Other Useful Plugins
  • Database Management
    • Installing DBViewer
    • Creating New Connections
    • DB Tree View
    • SQL Execute View
    • SQL History View
    • DBViewer Configuration
  • Version Control with Eclipse
    • Installing Subclipse
    • SVN Repository Exploration
    • Projects and Repositories
      • Checking out an Existing Project
      • Importing a New Project into a Repository
    • Update, Edit, Compare, and Commit
    • The Synchronize View
    • History View
  • Summary

• Index

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