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Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / RadRails and Rmagick - RMagick.so module not found

This topic caught my attention because I too am trying to configure Aptana (which claims to have RadRails) to use with the RubyStack (which someone told me is better than InstantRails) on Windows XP.

Please excuse my silly notions (if something is “better” than another tool), but I originally wanted to use Visual Studio 2008 with any kind of good IDE for Ruby on Rails. The only tool for VS2008 that I know of is Ruby in Steel, but it’s expensive, not free.

One guy told me to just stick with a simple text editor like Notepad++ or a bunch of other free ones, but these don’t always have the best highlighting or syntax colors, which may not be such a big deal…

What I would like is a decent IDE that helps me with filling in the rest of common code, hopefully making my life a little easier.

Rather than manually install Ruby and Rails via the method described at http://www.rubyonrails.org/down
I would rather install RubyStack and configure Aptana to correctly access the environment.

I’ve been googling for solutions, but this topic is the ONLY thing I could find that was remotely relevant. I’m sorry if this is the wrong place to post a question.

So…how can I configure Aptana Community edition to play nice with Bitnami’s RubyStack so I can take advantage of the Radrails plugin? I don’t need the paid Pro version do I?

If there’s simpler tools out there for a VERY early beginner like me….please point that out too!