Improving the Usability of Your Ruby on Rails Applications

Published June 15th, 2009 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

This session will explain the importance of usability and teach essential interface design principles for better user experiences on the web. The session will then dive into how to apply these principles in Ruby on Rails code, using a simple rails app to progressively add interface design improvements to enhance the usability.

Building Rails Applications with Aptana RadRails

Published August 28th, 2008 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment

RadRails is a free open source IDE for the Ruby on Rails framework that can be used as a stand-alone product or as an Eclipse plug-in. Four videos are currently available on the site aptana.tv

Aptana RadRails: Intro

Aptana RadRails: Debugging

Aptana RadRails: Rails Shell

Aptana RadRails: Type Hierarchy

Additional resources:

Aptana RadRails home page

rad-rails-rspec-runner (Drop in RemoteTestRunner enhancement for Aptana RadRails that also supports rSpec)

Using the Ruby Development Tools plug-in for Eclipse (article on ibm.com)

Easy Ruby development, the Eclipse way (article on ibm.com)

Web development with Eclipse Europa, Part 3: Ruby Development Toolkit and RadRails (tutorial on ibm.com)

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