Rubyweaver: Dreamweaver And Ruby On Rails

Ok, so I just started working on my first Ruby site. Can I tell you honestly, that it lives up to the hype? I can. At least, for me it does. It is such a treat, as a CSS designer, to work with back-end progamming that I can get well enough to do what it is that I do without having to involve a middle man. I love it!

My first challenge, however, was getting Ruby files (.rhtml files) to show up in Dreamweaver. I tried adding that extension to some lists in the preferences panel and was able to at least open Ruby files in Dreamweaver, but they weren’t color coded, nor did they make any effort whatsoever in the Preview Panel. Ok, not a big deal, but … what was a big deal was that I discovered that I could not use Find or Find and Replace actions in the Ruby folders. THAT was a problem!

So I did a search for a solution and within one minute found this page, where Rob Cameron shares his Dreamweaver extension, Rubyweaver, with us. I clicked the link and had the extension installed in a few seconds. I restarted Dreamweaver and was very happy with what I discovered! Color-coded Ruby pages that can use find and replace site-wide.

All in all it took me about two minutes from thinking, “Gee, it sure would be nice if there was a Ruby And Rails extension for Dreamweaver or something” to be working happily. Now that’s satisfaction! Thanks Rob!

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