- Ruby
- The Rails framework
- A relational database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite are supported, out of the box)
- Your favorite text editor
- Eclipse
- SubVersion
- The SubClipse SubVersion Client Plugin for Eclipse
- The Ruby Developer Tools Plugin for Eclipse
- The Web Developer Tools Plugin for Eclipse
- It's free!
- I'm planning on evaluating a Java-based architecture shortly, and Eclipse is probably the de-facto IDE for Java development.
- I'm planning on evaluating a LAMP-based architecture shortly, and there are PHP, Perl, and Python plugins available for Eclipse. No matter which 'P' I end up using, I should be covered under Eclipse.
I found another article on the Ruby on Rails site about How To Use Rails With Subversion. It's concise and includes valuable guidelines for what parts of the Rails environment to place under source control.
To test everything out, I built the sample application described in Rolling with Ruby on Rails, by Curt Hibbs. It's the perfect guide, if you're like me and just want to dive into something new, without a clue of what you're getting yourself into!
In all, it took me around two days of effort to find and read all of these articles, install MySQL, setup my development environment, build the sample application, and commit everthing to SubVersion.
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