I agree that an IDE is not necessary for rails. If you understand the conventions and follow them, then you don't need an IDE to help you figure out where things are in your project. I do think that a text editor that can find things in a project tree and do regular expression find/replace is very helpful, so TextMate is a good solution for me.
I also believe that mysql was extracted into its own gem about a year ago, since it was decided that the framework itself should be agnostic about which db to use. SQLite is there so that you can use a lightweight db out of the box, but you should install the particular gem for the production database you're going to use. That way people who are going to use PostgreSQL don't have to have MySQL included in the framework, and vice versa. On Oct 26, 11:48 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > Aldric Giacomoni wrote: > > TheTribster wrote: > >> After 3 days I am giving up on RoR. I have a MAC and after installing > >> Aptana [...] > > > It's OK. I gave up on RoR five times. I just wasn't ready for it. > > If I were you, I'd use Netbeans, instead of Aptana. It's free and much > > better. Of course, you could try Rubymine, but it's not free (although > > it is also much, much better). > > Or better, use neither. KomodoEdit, jEdit, or TextMate, in conjunction > with a bunch of terminal windows, will get you a long way. I maintain > that Rails does not benefit much from conventional IDEs. > > [...] > > > It also sounds like you should start from scratch, and really read the > > beginning docs. > > Oh heck yes. The guides athttp://guides.rails.infoare quite valuable. > So are RyanBates' Railscasts (and their transcriptions at ASCIIcasts). > > > They are very helpful, and one needs a lot to get > > started - but after the initial hurdle, it is a lot of fun. > > Indeed. I find Rails development -- especially when done test-first -- > to be pure exhilaration. > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
