Every Flavour Beans

Setting Up Rails Development Environment on Fedora GNU/Linux

Tabrez Iqbal — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:22:18 +0000

This is an adaptation to Fedora GNU/Linux platform of my previous posts meant for the Windows & Ubuntu platforms: Setting Up Rails Development Environment on Windows Vista/XP and Setting Up Rails Development Environment on Ubuntu GNU/Linux. I can think of two different ways in which you might want to set up a development environment for Ruby [...]

Setting Up Ruby on Rails Projects with Git and Github

Tabrez Iqbal — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:45:08 +0000

Git is the favourite source code management tool of the Ruby on Rails community these days. Though GNU/Linux or Mac platforms are generally preferred to Windows by Ruby on Rails as well as git communities, I will show you how you can work with these technologies on Windows platform. I will also show how to [...]

Installing Sun Java SE 6, Maven 2 and Tomcat 5.5 on Fedora GNU/Linux

Tabrez Iqbal — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:06:06 +0000

For using most of the enterprise technologies based on Java, you generally need at least the following components installed and configured on your system: Sun Java SE (or EE) SDK A command line build tool like Ant or Maven A Java application server/container like Tomcat, Jetty, Glassfish, JBoss etc. Based on which Java based technology/framework you [...]

Installing amazon-ecs/hpricot RubyGem on Windows Operating System

Tabrez Iqbal — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:15:32 +0000

Installing rubygems that come with native extensions is not same on gnu/linux and Windows platforms as I have discovered recently. Apparently, it is important that the native extensions needed by the rubygem be built with the same compiler tool chain as your main ruby installation. The rubygem I needed to install was amazon-ecs and it [...]

“Hello, World” Web Application in Ruby on Rails using Aptana Studio

Tabrez Iqbal — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:04:02 +0000

I am assuming that you have everything properly setup on your computer for developing applications with the Ruby on Rails framework using Aptana Studio IDE. If not, see my previous posts: Setting Up Rails Development Environment on Windows Vista/XP Setting Up Rails Development Environment using Aptana Studio In this post I will take you through a [...]

Setting Up Rails Development Environment using Aptana Studio

Tabrez Iqbal — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:07:37 +0000

You first need to complete the first five steps of my earlier post “Setting Up Rails Development Environment on Windows Vista/XP” which explain how to install Ruby, RubyGems, Ruby on Rails, Mongrel web server and MySQL database server on Microsoft Winodws Vista/XP. You can skip the last two steps(sixth and seventh) of that post which [...]

Installing Sun Java SE 6, Apache Maven 2 and Tomcat 5.5 on Windows OS

Tabrez Iqbal — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:19:06 +0000

For using most of the enterprise technologies based on Java, you generally need at least the following components installed and configured on your system: Java SE or EE SDK A command line build tool A Java application server/container like Tomcat, Glassfish, JBoss etc. Based on the Java based technology/framework you want to use, you may need [...]

“Hello, World” Web Application using Struts 2 in IntelliJ IDEA 8.0 M1

Tabrez Iqbal — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:49:01 +0000

At last we have a Java IDE that ships with Struts 2 support built-in: no manual configuring the web applications to add Struts 2 support and no more hassles of finding and installing Struts 2 plugins. JetBrains released IntelliJ IDEA 8 Milestone release 1 a week ago and the milestone version includes support for Struts [...]