Development

Step by step installation for git and PuTTY usage on Windows. Deals with common permission denied error due to tricky setup of various SSH keys.

The Capistrano Home Page.

Collection of known bugs with test cases for IE including IE8 (beta and beyond).

Capistrano 2.3 announcement and new feature documentation.

Braid, formerly known as giston, is a simple tool to help track git and svn vendor branches in a git repository.

It’s similar to piston but it’s for git.

Watir is a simple open-source library for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and easy to maintain. It is optimized for simplicity and flexibility.

RDoc documentation for Rake.

Official read-me for Rdoc.

Official home page for Mercurial source code control system.

Main home for git.

Summary of the Ruby support in the NetBeans IDE.

Blog from the author of Everyday Scripting with Ruby, who consults mainly on Agile software development with a focus on testing.

Developer working at Sun on Ruby and Rails support in NetBeans.

An excellent list of web-related conferences.

Ruby-specific mailing lists for NetBeans users and developers.

Mailing lists for TextMate users and plug-in developers

Mailing lists, events, and news related to the NetBeans IDE.

Git is a distributed source-code control system that is gaining popularity as an alternative to Subversion.

Resources for running Ruby on OS X.

Resource links for Capistrano on main Rails wiki.

Official site for Capistrano

Handy tools that remove the need for trips to terminal for things like Rake, Capistrano, Git, etc.

Objective C port of ActiveResource. Handy for connecting iPhone apps to RESTful Rails sites.

The ZenTest collection includes a full test coverage suite of tools (including the extremely useful autotest).

Subversion is the most widely used version control system in the Ruby on Rails world. It is an open-source project itself, and is used by many open source projects.

Git is an open-source version control system that does not use a central repository, but rather has each developer maintain their own repository. It is currently used for Linux OS development (Git itself was originally written by Linus Torvalds) and is gaining ground among the Ruby on Rails community.

Central site for the NetBeans IDE.

Allows you to keep a copy of an external project in your subversion repository, allowing you to make changes if needed, and merge in new versions from the external project.

Darcs is a free, open source source code management system.

A Java-based commercial bug tracking system.

Manages any SQLite database on your computer.

You need a JDBC driver for SQLite if you want to use the Netbeans IDE database service UI.

FastRI is an alternative to the “ri” documentation browser for Ruby, is faster, has better indexing, and uses different searching algorithms for extracting information from a documentation collection.

The Capistrano multistage extension permits easy targeting of multiple, staged development environments (e.g. development, staging, production servers).

Aptana Studio is an IDE for web developers that includes support for Ruby on Rails, through integration with the RadRails plug-in. It is available in “community” (free) and pro versions.

CollabNet provides commercial support and training for the open-source Subversion version control system. You can download the software from their site for free.

A web-based interface to Capistrano. Open source.

The official book about Subversion, available free online. You can also buy it as a printed book.

Free reference manual for Mercurial.

GitHub is being used by Rails, Merb, RSpec, Prototype, and Scriptaculous, among many other projects.

Hosted service for Subversion and bug/issue tracking. Free plans for single developers, paid plans for multiple developers and multiple projects.

Hosted project management service. Integrates with email.

Hosted issue tracker from the creators of Mephisto. Integrates with email.

Low-cost software testing.

Commercial Subversion hosting.