Everything you need installed on your laptop prior to one of our workshops which features live coding sessions. <p>As a minimum you will need Ruby, RubyGem, Rails and SQLite installed.</p> <p>I would recommend the following versions:</p> <ul> <li>Ruby 1.8.6</li> <li>Rails 2.0.2</li> </ul> <h3>Installing Ruby and RubyGem</h3> <p>Full instructions for installing Ruby on <em>Windows, Linux and Mac OS</em> can be <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/" target="_blank">found here on ruby-lang.org</a>.</p> <p> If you are using Windows I would suggest downloading and installing Ruby using the <a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/" target="_blank">One Click Installer</a> which includes Ruby and RubyGem.</p> <p>You can check that Ruby is installed by typing the command:</p> <code> C:\> ruby -v<BR /> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32] </code> <p>Check the version that gets installed:</p> <code> C:\> gem -v<BR /> 0.9.4 </code> <p>You need 1.0.1 or newer. If you have an older version, you can update with the command line: </p> <code>C:\> gem update --system</code> <h3>Installing Rails and additional gems</h3> <p>Once Ruby and RubyGem are installed Rails can be then be installed using the following command:</p> <code>C:\> gem install rails</code> <p>I would also recommend the following gems:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Mongrel</a><br /> <code>C:\> gem install mongrel</code></li> <li><a href="http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">RedCloth</a><br /> <code>C:\> gem install RedCloth</code></li> </ul> <h3>Installing SQLite</h3> <p>Download and unzip the <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/sqlitedll-3_5_8.zip" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">SQLite DLL</a> and <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite-3_5_8.zip" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">SQLite command-line program</a> in to /windows/system32 or another folder in your PATH.</p> <p>And then install the Ruby SQLite bindings:</p> <code>C:\> gem install sqlite3-ruby</code> <h3>IDE</h3> <p>You can use a basic text editor to program in Ruby and develop web applications with RubyOnRails but its nice to have syntax highlighting at the very least. Choice of IDE is very much a personal choice, but my two favorites are <a href="http://www.aptana.com/rails/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Aptana</a> and the Ruby edition of <a href="http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.1/final/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Netbeans</a>.</p> <p>If you have any problems please get in touch in plenty of time before the event and we will be happy to help.</p> Information 1 what_youll_need_installed_on_your_laptop 2008-04-15T11:04:00+01:00 Live 2008-05-13T16:23:23+01:00 1