THE ruby on rails IDE for window's users

I've finally decided to move on from NotePad to a more Rails friendly solution. I got wind of RadRails last night in the rails irc channel (#rubyonrails) and boy am I glad I did. With the syntax highlighting and the code completion, I would say this could compete with the Mac's Textmate but since I've never used it, that's as far as I'll take that comparison. I could go on about my 3 hours experience with RadRails thus far but I'm not. So to summarize, RadRails == good stuff.

a way to compare J2EE and Rails

from rubyonrails irc...

[20:21] Tell him J2EE is "broke back mountain", while ruby on rails is "tombstone"

Try Ruby now finished

Why actually finished it a while ago but I didn't post about it because I was too busy hacking at Rails! bwa ha ha! But anyway, check out the new tutorials. I believe the new ones begin at 5 so to jump right to them just do

help 5

Who'd a thunk!

Subverision on Windows in One click

More like one main click followed by a few "smaller" clicks. If you need to get subversion up and running on your windows box and you don't know what the heck you're doing, you need Svn1ClickSetup. This installs all needed svn libraries and even TortoiseSVN. TortoiseSVN basically adds some subverision commands/icons to windows explorer so you don't have to do everything through the command line utility. Since everyone who's anyone in the rails community is using subversion these days, why not dig in? It makes running on Edge Rails (running rake freeze_edge won't work without subversion) oh so much easier.

New book from Pragmatic Programmers: Learn to Program

Perfect for the world-domination-aspiring noob comes Chris Pine's Learn to Program (by way of the pragmatic programmers). If you dug his beginner's tutorial site, go ahead and pick up the book.