Apple adds Rails support for Xcode
Posted by matt.overstreet, Wed Mar 05 10:00:00 UTC 2008
Apple continues to encourage the adoption of Rails. First by adding ruby, rails, capistrano, cocoa bindings, etc to the basic Leopard install andRuby support in Xcode. Now they’ve upped the ante by including support for rails in Xcode. This was announcing to the Apple Development world as the main headline on their regular Developer Connection mailer.
Have a look at the artilce here . This is the first in a promised 3 part series intended to cover creation to deployment.
A couple thoughts,
First, while Xcode has rich SCM support it’s agonizingly not available in the “Organizer” interface used for Rails apps. This won’t stop command line users and you could use something like svnx for subversion, but the lack of integration of such a well developed Xcode feature smarts. Not to mention Git…
That said, the design interface is really worth a look. It’s wonderfully simple. The editor supports a file system tree view, basically cloning Textmate. At the top of the window are 4 “buckets” that can be used to hold your own scripts, grouping them to match your coding stages. The tutorial also instructs you on how to add a call to script/server to your “run” bucket. It would be a simple to add Capistrano and testing scripts. Another bucket comes pre-filled with your basic rake tasks. (Maddening, because they are detecting it’s a rails app and adding these, but not bothering to look for a .svn folder.) Still, I could see pulling up a chair and working here in a revision or two.
