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Ruby on Rails: First Impression

April 24th, 2008 | Category: Programming, Ruby on Rails | Comment Feed

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.

6 Comments so far

  1. Clint April 24th, 2008 2:12 pm

    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.

  2. Chris Williams April 24th, 2008 3:22 pm

    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)

  3. Alex Loddengaard’s Blog » This is Customer Service: Aptana April 24th, 2008 6:47 pm

    [...] today I wrote a post describing my difficulties with Aptana, which is an IDE for PHP, Ruby on Rails, and other things.  A few hours after I published my post [...]

  4. Alex Loddengaard April 24th, 2008 6:48 pm

    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.

  5. Huckleberry Hart April 26th, 2008 7:32 am

    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?

  6. Alex Loddengaard April 26th, 2008 9:05 am

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

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