3/26/2006
RadRails
I have recently installed RadRails. I have never been a big fan of Eclipse, but I was getting really tired of opening up all of the files in vi and then the stylesheets in my html editor (HTML-Kit -- which cannot open rhtml files by the way). You do not need to have Eclipse installed to use RadRails, although Java 1.4+ is required along with ruby and rails. There is also an RadRails Eclipse plugin if you already have Eclipse installed.
You can import existing rails applications into RadRails. And once again yours truly has forgotten another password...this time it's the login for my web app! Firefox has the password stored so I can sign in that way, but when I login from RadRails, I have to know the password -- the application is on a different port in RadRails. If the human readable version of the password were stored in my dev database, then RadRails would let me see the password, but rails (I guess rails and not MySQL -- I've never looked at how this works) encrypts the password before storing it. I am thinking that I will dev in RadRails and export the app weekly to the original location of the app on my file systems.
You can import existing rails applications into RadRails. And once again yours truly has forgotten another password...this time it's the login for my web app! Firefox has the password stored so I can sign in that way, but when I login from RadRails, I have to know the password -- the application is on a different port in RadRails. If the human readable version of the password were stored in my dev database, then RadRails would let me see the password, but rails (I guess rails and not MySQL -- I've never looked at how this works) encrypts the password before storing it. I am thinking that I will dev in RadRails and export the app weekly to the original location of the app on my file systems.
