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January 31, 2007
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Ruby on Rails and Dreamweaver 8

  • January 31, 2007
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I have been using Dreamweaver since 8 came out and before that I was an Adobe GoLive user for the little bit of web site work I had with my print design business. When print design slowed down, I started concentrating heavily on front-end web design but in the last two years I have studying web dev with back-end apps.

My first experience with back-end applications is Ruby on Rails (great tutorial on Lynda.com). I figured I could use it with Dreamweaver, and I was amazed to see that all of the links to the plug-ins that had been created by third parties, for what they termed RubyWeaver - have disappeared across the web. No kidding! - they are gone! And apparently the only plug-ins that existed were for DW MX.

So, any advice for me? I am starting out and I can't afford ColdFusion or Flex Builder. I was under the impression that RoR would be better than PHP - which are my only two options on a mac . I've also noticed all the Flex 2 and RoR articles in the Flex support forum, so why not Dreamweaver? Are there any plans to develop RonR plug-ins or should I just stop using Dreamweaver entirely and commit to TextMate or Aptana?
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New Participant
February 14, 2007

I’ve updated the old RubyWeaver and added a few features. You can get the new version here: [Dead link removed by Moderator]

February 14, 2007
Excellent!

Just in time too - my 30-day trial of TextMate just ran out!

Good news for all! Thanks Pete The Chop!!
Inspiring
January 31, 2007
> So, any advice for me?

Use one of the RoR IDEs out there.

-Darrel


January 31, 2007
Thanks Darrel...

TextMate is pretty kick-ass and if you to code in a fancy gothic colored background - its a lot of fun. Dreamweaver has some features that work well with updating PNGs but TextMate and Aptana do a much better job of displaying CSS correctly. You're right, maybe sticking with TextMate is best for the long run. Sorry Dreamweaver...
Inspiring
January 31, 2007
On 31 Jan 2007 in macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, TKC wrote:

> I was under the impression that RoR would be better than PHP

Why?

> - which are my only two options on a mac .

Again, why? You can /develop/ anything you want to on a Mac: Plain HTML,
PHP, ASP, ASP.Net, Cold Fusion. They, and most other Web technologies,
use plain text files, which can be edited on any platform.

Hosting, on the other hand, has to be done on an appropriate platform -
darn near any platform for PHP; Windows for IIS, with ASP(.Net); again
darn near anything for CF, but you have to find a host who wants to pay
Adobe for the server, which isn't cheap.

For What It's Worth, from what I've seen, there's a lot more third-party
PHP stuff than for RoR.

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email: http://makowiec.net/email.php
January 31, 2007
Joe - Thanks for your feedback!

I suppose I could buy VPC 7, install IIS and run ASP and ASP.NET so that I have a localhost/web server available on my Mac. Would I need Dreamweaver 8 (PC version) to communicate with that? Or can I run Dreamweaver on the Mac OS and communicate with my ASP and IIS database? ...or should I just suck-it-up and use TextMate - which is more like the plain text that you mentioned? It doesn't automatically update Fireworks but then again DW displays CSS very badly so maybe its time to change anyway.

Cold Fusion is way too expensive for now and it will probably take me more than 30 days to learn it before I get a client and can afford to buy it. But I know CF is the way to go eventually. Do you have host company that you can recommend for future reference?

Well, Thanks again... If you want to answer the above questions, please do so... otherwise I am off to Lynda.com to learn PHP.