Configuring Ruby on Rails

Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications. Rails provides a pure-Ruby development environment, to the request and response in the controller, and to the domain model wrapping the database. RubyGems is the standard Ruby package manager. On the Solaris platform, RubyGems are already loaded. Hence you can install all of Rails and its dependencies through the command-line by typing the following command as a root user:

/usr/bin/gem install rails --include-dependencies

The Ruby on Rails environment is set up for the development. You can now use the NetBeans IDE to creating a Ruby on Rails project. When you create a project, the IDE creates the same folders and files that a rails command would create. For more information about how to create Ruby on Rails project in the NetBeans IDE, see the tutorial at http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/ruby/getting-started.html.