My Ruby on Rails dev environment
June 29, 2009
My dev environment for Ruby is currently this:
Set up:
1. Windows Vista. I’m probably the only developer who likes Vista, but actually it behaved without problems for me from the start.
2. Ruby 1.8 + Rails 2.3.2.
3. sqlite3 – More than enough for the development purposes
IDE:
1. cmd window 1 – Web Server (ruby script/server). Usually runs in the background, but sometimes useful to see the database queries, no need to open the log.
2. cmd window 2 – Rails project directory. There I can quickly run Rails command-line commands, edit some text files, etc.
3. cmd window 3 – sqlite3.exe (dbconsole) for quick check ups on the data
4. Google Chrome browser – much faster than IE and the ever-bloated Mozilla.
5. E-texteditor. A “clone” of Mac’s favorite textmate. My version is a bit buggy and crashes if you try to write macros, plus I am not using bundles at all, but it still is the most pleasant way to write RoR code (an alternative was Aptana Studio, but when it crashed without any notice I decided against using it).
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andynu | June 30, 2009 at 4:12 am
I settled on a similar solution.
1. terminal running gnu screen
(1 – script/server, 2 – vim, 3 – shell in project folder, 4 – mysql cli, 5 – logs)
2. Chromium; agreed: crazy fast js.
One of the nice things about using screen is that provided I am in the rails root directory I can start it up with a particular screenrc and it splits into those five windows and starts their commands automatically.
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Traz | July 1, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Hello !
For cmd, take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/console : nice multitabs console on windows
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allaboutruby | July 19, 2009 at 10:40 am
Hi Traz – thanks for suggestion! Actually started to use the console now, it works great. Two things that could be improved – (1) there’s no tab restart, (2) if process closes with an error (like script/server), the tab is closed, without possibility to see what was an error (I guess this can be cured with enveloping with cmd… but still).
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