Week 8: Rails Passion Course

1. Week 8: Ruby/JRuby and Rails Support in NetBeans (Topics covered: Coding/Editing, Refactoring, Testing, Debugging, Profiling, Deployment)
2. 5553_rails_netbeans.zip (Unzip it in a directory of your choice and read lab document from /rails_netbeans/index.html to proceed) (4/19/09: Downloaded)
   
3. Week 8 Resources
   o Websites
   + NetBeans Ruby and Rails Learning Trail
   + NetBeans Ruby wiki
   o Database
   + Ruby Database Integration with NetBeans 6.1 from wiki.netbeans.org
   + Using MySQL Administrator Tool of NetBeans 6.1 Beta blog
   o Rails support in NetBeans blogs
   + Surprising Contender: NetBeans as a Ruby+MYSQL IDE blog by Timothy M. O'Brien (April 2008)
   + So long TextMate?... Hello NetBeans? Really? Yeah, really. blog (April 2008)
   + Tor Norbye's Weblogs
   + Why You Want NetBeans (for Rails development) blog by Eric Armstong (May, 2008)
   # See the end part of the blog.
4. Presentation - PDF: 1 slide per page (OR) OpenOffice file (36 pages) (4/19/09: Read)
5. Online Lab/ChangeLog document (This is the same document you will find in the hands-on lab zip file) (2 pages)
6. EXERCISE 1 (60 minute screencast): In this exercise, you are going to watch and listen variious NetBeans screencasts from the NetBeans Ruby and Rails Learning Trail website and try them yourselves.
7. (1.1) Using Code Completion (2:04 minutes)
   
8. (1.2) Using Hints and Quick Fixes (3:21 minutes)
   
9. (1.3) Using Live Code Templates (2:29 minutes) (http://ruby.netbeans.org/codetemplates-ruby.html)
   
10. (1.4) Editing Ruby Code (4:55 minutes)
    
11. (1.5) Debugging Ruby Code (4:38 minutes)
12. EXERCISE 2 (30 minute screencast): In this exercise, you are going to exercise various Ruby editing features of NetBeans.
13. (2.1) Ruby Editing features (4/19/09: Printed out and read this section - 14 pages)
14. Homework (No Homework)