Eclipse - installing Scala plugin manually?

I have been playing around with Scala for some time, and was always using the Scala IDE (www.scala-ide.org) which is based on a relatively older version of Eclipse (Luna).

I recently discovered this, wherein you could install the scala plug-in on a regular Eclipse installation.

Just add the following url as a new update site in your local eclipse installation and you'd be able to install the scala plugin just like that -


http://download.scala-ide.org/sdk/lithium/e44/scala211/stable/site

IDE for working with Rails

For some time now, I was looking for the right kind of IDE to work with ruby on rails. Googling for this helped but not much.

Eventually, I came across this post somewhere which mentioned RadRails. This is a module from Aptana development studio.

In addition to the fact that this is a component of the Aptana dev suite, this component is available separately as a plugin for Eclipse as well.

And installation and configuration come very very simple. In a running version of Eclipse (I have Eclipse 3.2), look for a remote installation site. Few simple questions about which package to install etc. and you have the plug-in installed.

Here's the url to enter in the Eclipse remote update site...

http://update.aptana.com/update/studio/3.2/ => For Aptana tools in general
http://update.aptana.com/update/rails/3.2/ => For RadRails Plugin

And it works like a charm, really. After installation, you can create a new rails project from within Eclipse GUI as well, in addition to your favourite command line methods.

Starting a server, generating components (controller, model etc..), its all possible from the GUI.

I personally like the GUI and the syntax highlighting the most.