Integrate Shoes into Aptana Studio RadRails

Question

How can I run my Carpet applications directly from Aptana Studio with RadRails? Setting the shoes.exe as VM/Interpreter won't work.

Answer 1

If you have the file in a Ruby project, you can do the following:

1. Go to Run -> External Tools -> External Tools...
2. Create a new tool, name it something (like, say, "Shoes")
3. Set Location to the Shoes binary, for example, on my system it's C:\Program Files\Common Files\Shoes\0.r1134\shoes.exe
4. Set Working Directory to ${workspace_loc}${project_loc} (You can change this to fit your needs, but I'd assume the project's base directory is as good a place as any to set as the working directory)
5. Set Arguments to "${workspace_loc}${resource_path}" The double quotes should be included, otherwise any spaces in your path will muck things up.

That's it. Now you can run it by going to Run -> External Tools -> Shoes, or using the External Tools icon on the toolbar.

Answer 2

Thanks Pesto. Just one correction, 4. should read:

${workspace_loc}${project_path}