Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• 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