Installing the latest Aptana Rails plugin

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  • June 16, 2007

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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Written by:
Lancelot
Posted on:
June 24, 2007 at 4:31 pm

I tried doing this with eclipse and it keeps telling me that there are no updates available and I followed all of the instructions.. Have any suggestions? I’m stuck in version 0.8.0.200705141538. I’ve asked on the forums too:

http://www.aptana.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=7326#7326

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Written by:
Simon
Posted on:
June 24, 2007 at 5:57 pm

I had to install both the Aptana and Aptana Rails plugins into Eclipse. After that I changed the policy url, and made sure that I had the following options selected under Preferences …

  • Install/Update:
    * Valid updates – compatible
  • Aptana Automatic updates
    * Custom update policy (change via policy url)

After I made these changes, I was able to install build 0.8.0.200706201059 of the Rails plugin.

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evan benton
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February 13, 2010 at 6:54 am

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