My Ruby on Rails Experience, Part 2

This is part 2 of the series; part 1 is here.

After installing Ruby on Rails, the next step was to upgrade my MySQL 4.1 server to version 5.0 and migrate my existing database. This took about 30 minutes, thanks to the flawless MySQL installer.

The next step was to select a Ruby IDE. I ended up picking RadRails, an Eclipse-based IDE with a ton of extensions for both Ruby and Ruby on Rails. In a couple of minutes I was able to define a default Rails application, define a web server, and access the application; all from within the IDE.

Part 3 of this series is here.

Comments

[Daniel]

The part one link doesn't point at part one it points at part 6.