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As you know, in a complete fit of me-too-ism I’ve been spending time with RoR. One of the nicer free IDE’s in that part of the world is RadRails. I had been using Notepad++ and JEdit, but I have to say just simply having something that feels more like an IDE is nice. One problem with RadRails though - its not the easiest thing in the world to configure. You have to know where all sorts of bits and pieces are installed and kept. From ruby to rails to mongrel. Since I do this little bit of work in the evening and don’t have a lot of time to dig around I just never could get that darn thing running. So it just sat there. Slick looking but not working. Hey that reminds me of some project managers . This evening I came across a page on InstantRails that solved all my ails. Having installed InstantRails, I came across the following note

Automatic RadRails configuration: if your choose your Instant Rails “rails_apps” subdirectory as your workspace, then all of the RadRails paths (to ruby, rake, ri, rdoc, etc.) will be automatically set.

Well hot dog it really worked. So now I’ve got some nice way of working with RoR. At least until the next neat IDE comes along.