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From Issue #137
September 2005

Jul 28, 2005  By Reuven M. Lerner
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What's behind all the Ruby hype? Reuven walks us through a couple of examples to let the code speak for itself.
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Setting up a Linux Rails Development Environment

Jim Rutherford's picture
Submitted by Jim Rutherford (not verified) on Fri, 09/09/2005 - 16:29.

If you looking to give Rails a try on linux, checkout my tutorial on Installing Ruby on Rails with Lighttpd and MySQL on Fedora Core 4

Cheers!

indention in CGI code

Robby Russell's picture
Submitted by Robby Russell (not verified) on Thu, 08/11/2005 - 11:06.

Is the weird indenting in the CGI example intentional?

A few python pals looked at that and immediately thought it might be some Ruby-ism. I showed them an example like this to clear up the confusion:

nevermind, linuxjournal doesn't allow a pre tag so my indenting doesn't stay in the comment. I'd prefer not confuse anyone else. :-)

indents in ruby are 2 spaces

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 04/14/2006 - 10:16.

indents in ruby are 2 spaces...if you want the community to like you.

Thanks

Eric Anderson's picture
Submitted by Eric Anderson (not verified) on Fri, 07/29/2005 - 12:14.

Thanks for the quick intro, it's a good starting point for server-side Java developers. I'm looking forward to the Rails article.

One thing though: how about a look into the Ruby debugging environment. What tools/approaches do I use to debug complex server-side Ruby applications? I hope the answer is not "use print statements" ... effectively taking us back to the Dark Ages of programming. I like the idea of object-oriented scripting, but do not like the idea of _not_ having tools as powerful as say, the Eclipse or Netbeans debuggers for my work.

You can use Eclipse, for sure :o)

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Submitted by mpathy (not verified) on Sat, 08/27/2005 - 02:11.

There is a very nice plugin for eclipse I use.

Use the Eclipse Update Manager with this URL:
http://rubyeclipse.sf.net/updatesite

There is a Test::Unit included.
Thats what you need (if I understood you right).

Try Ruby on Rails

michael's picture
Submitted by michael (not verified) on Tue, 08/02/2005 - 13:45.

RoR has a console for debugging purposes which allows you to directly interact with your development model.

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