NetBeans 6.5 M1: GlassFish v3 + Rails

NetBeans IDE 6.5 Milestone 1 is now href="http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1254">available.
The New
and Noteworthy feature list certainly makes it worthy for the
install - comprehensive PHP support ( href="http://www.netbeans.org/kb/docs/php/php-editor-screencast.html">Editor
Screencast and href="http://www.netbeans.org/kb/trails/php.html">PHP
Learning Trail), href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthyMilestone1NB65#section-NewAndNoteWorthyMilestone1NB65-JavaScriptDebugger">JavaScript
Debugger, href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthyMilestone1NB65#section-NewAndNoteWorthyMilestone1NB65-Groovy">Groovy
Editor, href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthyMilestone1NB65#section-NewAndNoteWorthyMilestone1NB65-GrailsSupport">Grails
support and Numerous improvements in other areas are some of
them.



Let's get started!

1. Download href="http://bits.netbeans.org/download/6.5/m1/">NetBeans
   6.5 M1. Installation is pretty straight-forward and I
   customized it with the following options:
   
   
   
   src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb6.5m1-custom-install.png">
   
   
   
   After a simple installation process, check the "About" box as:
   
   
   
   src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb6.5m1-about.png">
   
   
   
   
   
   


2. GlassFish v3
   plug-in and TP2
   is baked into the main release and so it is pre-configured for you. No
   need to install the href="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/screencast_24_getting_started_with">additional
   plugin.
   
   
   
   This blog walks you through creating a simple Rails app and shows the
   nice improvements along the way.
   
   


3. Let's create a simple Rails app:
   
   
   
   src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb6.5m1-new-rails.png">
   
   
   
   Notice, GlassFish v3 is chosen as the default Server.


4. Specify the database connection as:
   
   
   
   src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb6.5m1-new-rails-db.png">
   
   
   
   and click on "Finish". NetBeans is bundled with JRuby 1.1.2 and Rails
   2.1.0.
   
   


5. Start MySQL as "sudo mysqld_safe --user root".


6. Running Rake commands from within is more natural now.
   Right-click on the project and select "Run/Debug Rake Task ..."
   
   
   
   src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb6.5m1-run-rake.png">
   
   
   
   The dialog shows all the Rails rake tasks available. Typing the Rake
   command prunes the list matching
   
   the pattern and shows:
   
   
   
   src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb6.5m1-rake-tasks.png">
   
   
   
   Type "db:create" and select "Run".
   
   


7. Create a new Scaffold by right-clicking on "Project" and
   selecting "Generate..." and entering the value as shown:
   
   
   
   src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb6.5m1-rails-new-scaffold.png">
   
   
   
   and clicking on "OK".
   
   


8. Migrate the database by invoking Rake command as shown:
   
   
   
   src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb6.5m1-rails-rake-db-migrate.png">
   
   
   
   and selecting "Run".
   
   


9. Right-select the project and select "Run" as shown:
   
   
   
   src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb6.5m1-rails-run.png">
   
   
   
   The default App Server page at "http://localhost:8080" is shown. This
   will be href="http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=139188">updated
   to "http://localhost:8080/RailsApplication19" which is the default
   Rails page for the final release.
   
   


10. After adding couple of entries the final output looks like:
    
    
    
    src="http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/resource/netbeans/nb6.5m1-rails-output.png">

With NetBeans 6.5, you can easily run your Rails applications on
GlassFish v3 by taking most of the defaults. href="http://developers.sun.com/appserver/reference/techart/rails_gf/">Rails
powered by the GlassFish Application Server explains the
reasons to do so.

Subsequent blog entries will highlight other aspects of NetBeans IDE
6.5 M1.



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