Getting Started
If you are reading this, we'd like to thank you for your interest in Aptana Studio. Please read through this guide carefully.
Before you install the Release, you should have the following tools installed and working correctly:
- Sun/Oracle Java 1.5.x or later on Mac and Linux. OpenJDK is not yet supported. The Windows installer includes a compatible version of Java.
- Git is required because it is used internally to update your scripting environment. On Windows, we recommend PortableGit from msysgit because we also require its bash shell for executing commands. If you don't have msysgit installed, Studio 3 will offer to install it for its own internal use.
- If you are installing Studio 3 as an Eclipse plugin, you must use Eclipse 3.5 or better.
If you intend to do Ruby on Rails development, you will also need to set up your Ruby and Rails development environment:
- Ruby 1.8.7+ and/or 1.9.1+ (on Windows, we recommend RubyInstaller along with its optional DevKit addon). You can use other ruby runtimes (e.g. jruby) if you like, but we expect to find
rubyandgemtools on your path by name. Plus we haven't tested debugging with other interpreters yet, so debugging may not work if you use an alternate runtime. - Rails (2.x and/or 3.0)
- The gem that supports the database(s) of your choice.
- For debugging, you will need to have the
ruby-debug-baseandruby-debug-idegems installed.
You should also make sure that your login PATH is set up correctly such that you can execute the ruby, gem, rails, and git commands correctly. Setting these things up in your .bashrc (or equivalent) isn't sufficient, because it doesn't get evaluated by default when GUI applications like Aptana Studio 3 get launched.
Ruby switching utilities like rvm should also work, provided that you set them up in your login PATH as well.
If getting your login PATH set up in this way isn't practical for you, you can work around the problem by launching Aptana Studio 3 from the command line, using the studio3 command line utility. This utility can be found at the top level of the Aptana Studio 3 installation folder, so you can put that folder in your PATH for convenience. (The command line utility can also be called after Aptana Studio 3 is running, to get it to open source code files for editing.)
The IDE is configured to check for updates from our update site, and we plan on releasing new versions on a regular schedule.
Check the help system for links on getting started and how to use various features.
The active community around Aptana Studio includes documentation, Aptana communications and member conversations.
Found a bug? Use our bug tracker to see the list of open and closed bugs as well as submit new tickets.