How to use Eclipse for Ruby on Rails (RoR)

Question

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/down

Answer 1

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:

• TM Terminal - provides local and remote command line sessions within Eclipse.

• Ruby Development Tools - the reference Ruby editor.

• JavaScript Development Tools - the base JavaScript editor.

• EGit - the Git integration plug-in.

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.