Install Rad Rails

As described in the article Using the Ruby Development Tools plug-in for Eclipse , the first thing to do is install Ruby Development Tools. It’s best to do that from directly within Eclipse. From the main menu select Help/Software Updates/Find and Install, and select the “Search for new features to install option”. Press “New Remote Site” and create a Ruby Development Tools entry at URL http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/release.
 




Go ahead and install it, and check out its features. We will be using it as the foundation and necessary pre-requisite for using Rad Rails, however, so we won’t go into details here on this wonderful Eclipse IDE plugin.

Now set up another “New Remote Site” for RadRails itself, as shown below:

 

 

Go ahead and press “Finish” and proceed to installation.

Just a couple of setup config items; in Window/Preferences, go to Ruby/Installed Interpreters and specifiy path to ruby in your system.



 

Idem with Ri/rdoc for documentation (and mouse-over doc) support.

All done!