Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development -- Table of Contents -- Aptana RadRails: An IDE for Rails Development -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What This Book Covers -- What You Need for This Book -- Who This Book Is For -- Conventions -- Reader Feedback -- Customer Support -- Downloading the Example Code for the Book -- Errata -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started -- Do I Need an IDE for Rails Development? -- About Aptana RadRails -- How Can Aptana RadRails Help Me? -- Prerequisites -- Java Virtual Machine -- Ruby and Rails -- Components to Install -- Installing Rails if you already have Ruby and RubyGems -- Installing Ruby and Rails on Linux -- Installing Ruby and Rails Using yum -- Installing Ruby and Rails Using apt -- Installing Ruby and Rails on OS X -- Installing Ruby and Rails on Windows -- Supported Databases -- Installing Eclipse -- Installing Plugins in Eclipse -- RadRails Installation -- Summary -- 2. First Steps -- Basic Configuration -- Eclipse Preferences Dialog -- File Encoding -- Connecting through a Proxy -- Ruby Environment -- Rails Environment -- Creating a Rails Project -- Importing an Existing Project into RadRails -- Working with Perspectives and Views -- Eclipse Perspectives -- Eclipse Views -- Summary -- 3. Your First Application -- Basic Views -- The Ruby Explorer View -- Ruby Explorer Top Icons -- The Console View -- The Generators View -- Generating Models and Migrations -- Running Your Migrations -- Generating Scaffolds -- Starting Your Server -- Monitoring Your Server -- Summary -- 4. Writing Ruby Code -- A Quick Note about Keyboard Shortcuts -- The Ruby Editor -- Syntax Highlighting -- Outlining the Structure of Your Ruby Code -- Quick Outline -- Type Hierarchy -- General Outline View -- Code Folding -- Code Formatting -- Indenting Code Blocks -- Commenting Code Blocks.

Code Completion -- Code Templates -- Defining Your Own Code Templates -- Navigating Your Code -- General Source Navigation Tools -- Matching Brackets -- Declarations of Classes, Modules, Methods, and Variables -- Navigating Your MVC Code -- Opening Types and Resources -- Refactoring -- Generate Accessors -- Generate Constructors -- Convert Local Variable to Field -- Encapsulate Field -- Extract Method -- Extract Constant -- Inline Method -- Rename -- Split Local Variable -- Searching in Ruby Projects -- Searching within the Current File -- Searching across Multiple Files -- Ruby Search -- Call Hierarchy -- Summary -- 5. Coding Rails Views -- ERB/RHTML Templates -- Views Navigation -- View Templates -- HTML Code Assist -- Refactoring into Partials -- Outline -- Editing HTML Files -- Editing JavaScript Files -- Editing CSS Files -- Summary -- 6. Debugging Your Application -- Getting Started with Debugging -- Debugger Configuration -- Starting Your Server -- Debugging a Ruby Script -- Using Breakpoints -- The Breakpoints View -- Setting Generic Breakpoints for Exceptions -- Exporting and Importing Breakpoints -- The Debug View -- The Debug View and the Stack Frame -- Stepping through Your Application -- Variables and Expressions -- The Variables View -- The Expressions View -- The Display View -- Useful Tools for Debugging -- Linking Errors and Source Code from the Browser -- Tailing the Log Files -- Summary -- 7. RadRails Views -- Opening the RadRails Views -- Documentation Views -- Ruby Interactive (RI) View -- Ruby Core, Ruby Standard Library, and Rails API -- Servers View -- Starting a Server with Additional Arguments -- Managing Non-Rails Servers from the Servers View -- Launching External Tools from Eclipse -- Rails Console -- Rails Plugins View -- RubyGems View -- Rake Tasks -- Generators View -- Rails Shell View -- RegExp View -- Problems View.

Tasks View -- Test::Unit View -- Summary -- 8. Configuration Reference -- General -- Appearance -- Editors -- Annotations -- Linked Mode -- Quick Diff -- Spelling -- Keys -- Workspace -- Aptana -- Browsers/User Agents -- Editors -- Code Assist -- Colors -- Folding -- Formatting -- Typing -- RHTML Templates -- Start Page -- Rails -- Ruby -- Appearance -- Editor -- Syntax Coloring -- Errors/Warnings -- Task Tags -- Summary -- 9. Other Useful Plugins -- Database Management -- Installing DBViewer -- Creating New Connections -- DB Tree View -- SQL Execute View -- SQL History View -- DBViewer Configuration -- Version Control with Eclipse -- Installing Subclipse -- SVN Repository Exploration -- Projects and Repositories -- Checking out an Existing Project -- Importing a New Project into a Repository -- Update, Edit, Compare, and Commit -- The Synchronize View -- History View -- Summary -- Index.