Brian Hogan has wrote a good article at "New Auburn" site about "Setting up a Rails Development Environment on Windows Using Eclipse". It's a kind of how-to and step by step guide for windows users on how to set up an easy to use IDE for Ruby On Rails.



Here is the content of the article:

* Download and install Ruby
* Install Eclipse
* Configure Eclipse for Rails
      o Install the Ruby Developer Tools package
      o Configure the RDT plugin
* Launching External Rails Scripts within Eclipse (Now with downloadable goodness! )
      o Configure Eclipse to Create Rails Projects
      o Configure Eclipse to Launch WEBrick server
      o Configure Eclipse to Create Rails Models
      o Configure Eclipse to Create Rails Controllers
      o Configure Eclipse to Generate Scaffold for Controllers and Views
      o Setting up the Favorites
      * Working with Rails Projects in Eclipse
      o Configure WEBrick's Output for Eclipse
      o Create a new Rails Project
      o Show All Files
* Install the DBEdit Eclipse plugin
      o Connect to a Database
* Install Web Developer Tools for Eclipse (Updated!)
      o Configure Eclipse to handle you View files
      o Add code hints for the views (Updated!)
* Debugging within Eclipse
      o Setting up Breakpointer
      o Using Breakpointer
* Installing SubClipse (New!)
* Troubleshooting (New!)
* Screenshots (New!)