Ruby on Rails: First Impression

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First impression of Ruby on Rails: awesome.  It does so many things for you, and it makes things so easy.  “Things” is a very vague term, so I plan to write a much more in-depth post when I know more.

I tried to use Aptana as a fully enclosed IDE, but I couldn’t get it to work correctly after trying to reinstall it at least 10 times.  I followed a guide on how to install Ruby on Rails on Mac 10.4; I got everything working from the command line.  Finally!

More Ruby on Rails updates to come.

  • http://dontexplain.com Clint

    I forgot to mention this earlier, but TextMate is THE editor of choice for Ruby on Rails for OS X.

    All the 37signals people use it.

  • Chris Williams

    Hi Alex! Sorry to hear you had issues trying to get started with Aptana. Can you elaborate on what specifically was the stumbling block and/or open up a bug with us? (http://support.aptana.com/asap)

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  • http://www.alexloddengaard.com Alex Loddengaard

    Hi Chris, I just responded to you via email. I’ll also take a look at the support page you’ve linked me to.

    Unbelievable customer service, Chris. Seriously. Hats off to you guys.

  • http://www.agoodreed.com Huckleberry Hart

    At first I thought Ruby on Rails was about snowboarding…

    Then I thought maybe it was about hamburgers.

    Then I decided that it was a remix of the song Ruby Tuesday.

    That’s what it is right?

  • http://www.alexloddengaard.com Alex Loddengaard

    You’re right on, dude. Good work figuring that out ;).