Rails on Windows
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2009
60 pages
978-0-596-52965-9 (ISBN)
Description
It's no secret that the entire Ruby onRails core team uses OS X as their preferreddevelopment environment. Becauseof this, it is very easy to findauthoritative information on the webabout using Rails on OS X. But the truthis that Windows developers using Railsprobably outnumber those using otherplatforms. A Windows development environmentcan be just as productive asany other platform.This is a guide to developing with Rubyon Rails under Windows. It won't teachyou how to write Ruby on Rails web applications,but it will show you what toolsto use and how to set them up to createa complete Rails development environment.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Product notice
Windows
File size
3,98 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-596-52965-9 (9780596529659)
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Content
- Intro
- The Plan
- Getting Started on the Fast Track
- Instant Rails
- Testing Instant Rails
- Other features
- Using RadRails with Instant Rails
- Caveats
- Install Ruby on Rails Manually
- Updating RubyGems
- Installing Rails and the Dependencies
- Installing Mongrel
- Installing MySQL
- Working with Microsoft SQL Server
- ODBC Connection
- ADO Connection
- Installing Subversion for Use with Rails
- Installing the Subversion Client Tools
- Testing Subversion
- Installing TortoiseSVN-A GUI for Subversion
- Configuring Subversion for SVN+SSH
- Creating Your Own Repository
- Starting the Repository
- Connect to Your New Repository via TortiseSVN
- Running the Repository as a Service
- Common Rails Tasks
- Using RCov in Order to Test Code Coverage
- Installing ZenTest to Continuously Test Your Application
- Setting the path system-wide
- Deploying with Capistrano on Windows
- Installing Capistrano
- Using SQLite with Rails
- Development Environments for Windows
- RadRails
- Eclipse for Rails
- ActiveState Komodo
- Ruby In Steel
- e
- Debugging in Rails
- The Rails Console
- The Breakpointer
- Wrapping Up
- Acknowledgments
