Installing the latest Aptana Rails plugin
It turns out I’m more of an eclipse novice than I thought! Despite using Eclipse for Java development (since version 2!) and more recently for Rails work it’s taken me a while to figure out how to install the latest beta version of the Rails plugin for Aptana. To summarise:
1. Download the current stable version of the Aptana IDE
2. Launch the Aptana IDE (and choose a workspace location)
3. Install the Aptana RadRails plugin from the Aptana Start Page
4. Restart Aptana
5. Choose Window … Preferences, then Install/Update and enter the following policy url: http://update.aptana.com/update/rails/beta/3.2/policy.xml
6. Click Ok, and restart Aptana
7. Choose Help .. Software Updates … Find and Install then “Search for Updates of currently installed features”. If you expand the Rails plugin option you should see the following version listed: 0.8.0.200706111240
8. Install it.
9. I’m sure you could skip installing two versions of the plugin if you really knew the score …
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