Hi Bob, Well I've decided to use Aptana Studio 3 with the RadRails plugin already included as a "Stand Alone" package. Although it starts up kinda slow (very much like Eclipse...wonder if they're using it?) it does work rather well. I especially appreciate the fact that unlike previous versions of Aptana, the terminal window now works for all of the normal hobo commands. I really like the fact that the terminal window "defaults" to the directory used as the project directory for the "last loaded project". Very nice! Anyway...I'm currently going through the latest Rapid Rails Beta book and actually doing all of the practice apps in the book as part of my education. Although Aptana Studio 3 seems to work ok with OpenJDK, there is a warning on their website that it won't work with OpenJDK...only with Sun's Java JDK. So, if I run into trouble I might try Sun's version. Thanks for your help.
Sincerely, Arthur Baldwin ________________________________ From: Bob Sleys <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: Arthur Baldwin <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 6:40 AM Subject: Re: [Hobo Users] Need an IDE for Hobo & Rails MS Access, been there done that, ya it's a single user environment. However I wasn't talking about Access when I mentioned MS Developer. I was talking about MS Visual Studio. I know most here on this forum arn't gong to be big fans of MS products however IF what you customers want is desktop MDI apps then they are using Windows and Visual Studio really is your best choice. Note the big IF. Personally I've had limited success with moving clients away from Windows on their desktops but I've had great success moving away from desktop apps to web apps. Linux is the server environment has always been king no matter what MS fans have been trying to tell the world. MS may own the desktop for now but Linux owns servers. By moving to web apps over desktop apps you no longer care what OS they use on their desktops since everything is run in side the browser. So to summarize IMHO IF your clients want/need desktop apps, windows desktop apps, I'd go with MS Visual Studio written in C# with MS SQL server or really any real DB back-end but most defiantly NOT MS Access. I know it's expensive but if forced into that environment it's really they only choice IMHO. IF you can move to web apps then I'd go with RubyMine, RadRails or Titanium. I'd use the standalone versions of each not the plugins. It avoids all those plugin problems with Eclipse. I've used all 3 including Netbeans and other "text" editors in the past. Currently my favorite is Titanium but only because of the potential to do mobile apps. Titanium is essentially RadRails with the mobile app development thrown in for free. If I wasn't thinking about some mobile apps in the near future I'd stick with RubyMine it beats RadRals and Titanium in pure ruby/rails development by a slight margin IMHO. To setup any of the above 3 just install OpenJDK from the Ubuntu software center. Download the packages for the IDE's and untar/unzip them in a dir of you home dir. Then simply create a menu item pointing to the startup script. None of the 3 include an install but simply unpack and run from the unpacked dirs no setup required. Bob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" 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/hobousers?hl=en.
