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Aptana Basics
- Installing Aptana
- Determining your Aptana version
- Aptana System Requirements
- Aptana and RadRails compatibility chart
- Reporting an Aptana bug or requesting a feature
- Updating your version of Aptana
- Reverting to a previous build of Aptana
- Changing your update version type of Aptana
- Using Aptana from behind a web proxy
- Adding a source control plugin to Aptana
- Accessing your Aptana log
- Reporting an error or crash in Aptana
- Changing the VM used with Aptana
- Changing the Aptana Studio interface to a different language
- Installing a plug-in
- Uninstalling a plug-in
- Updating a plug-in
Aptana Studio Pro
- Upgrading to Aptana Studio Pro
- FAQ for upgrading to Aptana Studio Pro
- Installing the IE debugger
- Importing a remote project
- Generating a project report
- Creating a custom project report
- About the Aptana JSON Editor
Aptana Tutorials
- Creating a new AJAX library project
- Enabling Code Assist to work with AFLAX
- Getting started with Aptana and AFLAX
- Getting started with Aptana and jQuery
- Getting started with Aptana and MochiKit
- Getting started with Aptana and Prototype
- Getting started with Aptana and Yahoo UI
- Getting started with the Aptana debugger
Getting to know Aptana Studio (General IDE Concepts)
- Understanding how Aptana works with the Eclipse IDE
- About the Eclipse IDE
- Eclipse community resources
- About plug-ins
- About the Eclipse Workbench
- Changing your Eclipse Perspective
- Switching your workspace
- About the Aptana toolbar
- About the Aptana menubar
- About preferences
- About Editors
- About projects
Displaying Aptana Views
- Displaying the Bookmarks View
- Displaying an Editor View
- Displaying Fast Views
- Displaying the File View
- Displaying the Help View
- Displaying the Jaxer Activity Monitor View
- Displaying the Jaxer Shell View
- Displaying the Project View
- Displaying the Outline View
- Displaying the Plugins Manager View
- Displaying the Properties View
- Displaying the References View
- Displaying the Samples View
- Displaying the Search View
- Displaying the Servers View
- Displaying the Snippets and Scripts Views
- Displaying the Sync Manager View
- Displaying the TailView View
- Displaying the Tasks View
- Displaying the Validation View
- Displaying the Visual ScriptDoc View
- Displaying the Walkthroughs View
Navigating Aptana
- About the Aptana JavaScript Editor
- About the Aptana HTML Editor
- About the Aptana CSS Editor
- About the Aptana PHP Editor
- About the Aptana JSON Editor
- Searching Aptana
- About Local History
- Rolling back a file version
- Navigating open files with Next Editor or Previous Editor
- Using Goto to jump to a location
- Adding a bookmark
- Adding a task
- Searching for files using Open Resource
- About Aptana Snippets
Setting your Aptana preferences
- Displaying or hiding line numbers
- Viewing code changes with Quick Diff
- Modifying your shortcut keys
- Shortcut key Quick Reference
- Changing the Editor font
- Changing your file association preferences
- Setting your HTML preview preferences
- Adding custom error message filters to the Validation View
- Setting your View Source preferences
- Customizing your colorization preferences
- Customizing your formatting preferences
- Customizing your typing preferences
- Exporting and importing colorization preferences
- Exporting and importing preferences
- Setting your TailView preferences
Creating Aptana Projects
- About Aptana projects
- Creating your first Aptana project
- Creating a new Aptana project
- Importing an existing project from Dreamweaver or HomeSite
- Adding a project reference to your project
- Opening an existing Aptana project
- Importing a file into a project
- Exporting a file from a project
- Creating a working set of projects
- Creating a project from an existing folder
- Creating a new JavaScript file
- Creating a new HTML or CSS file
- Sharing an Aptana project
- Applying a patch to an Aptana project or file
- Creating a new JavaScript library project wizard
- Updating an Ajax library project
- About using a Strict vs. Transitional DOCTYPE in HTML
- Importing existing projects
- Generating a project report
- Creating a custom project report
Previewing Aptana projects
- Setting up your web browser configuration
- Adding a web browser configuration to your Favorites
- Previewing a project in a web browser
- Setting up an external web server to preview PHP and other non-HTML pages
- Previewing PHP, ASP and other non-HTML pages
- Configuring Aptana to use an external web server
- Previewing CSS
- Setting your HTML preview preferences
- Previewing a Jaxer project
Code Formatting
Developing with Jaxer
- About the Jaxer server
- Getting Started with Jaxer in Aptana Studio
- Creating a new Jaxer project
- Previewing a Jaxer project
- About Jaxer Views
- Configuring your Jaxer servers
- Setting your TailView preferences
- JaxerManager_Command_Line_Interface_(CLI) Reference
- Running the Jaxer server diagnostic tools
Debugging your JavaScript code with the Aptana debugger
- About the JavaScript debugger
- JavaScript debugger feature comparison
- About the Aptana Debug perspective
- Installing the JavaScript debugger
- Installing the IE debugger
- Uninstalling the debugger
- Running the debugger
- Accessing your debugger log
- Stepping into and over functions
- Adding a breakpoint
- Using the Assert API
Inspecting and debugging with Firebug
- About Firebug
- Installing the Firebug extension
- Inspecting HTML
- Inspecting CSS
- Stepping through your code
- Adding watch expressions
- Monitoring XMLHttpRequests
- Editing a web page
- Writing to the Firebug console
- Setting breakpoints in Firebug
- Profiling code performance
- Firebug hotkey reference
Transferring Files with FTP
- About the Aptana FTP tool
- Adding an FTP site
- Adding a site connection
- Synchronizing your files
- Editing a file from a remote site
- Uploading or downloading a file or folder
- Cloaking files or folders
- Setting remote file permissions
- Importing a remote project
Using Code Assist
- About Code Assist
- Displaying Code Assist
- Setting up Code Assist using ScriptDoc
- Documenting your code using ScriptDoc
- Documenting your code in an .sdoc file
- Documenting dynamic properties and functions with ScriptDoc
- Documenting inheritance with ScriptDoc
- Using Open Declaration to jump to a function in your code
- ScriptDoc comprehensive tag reference
- ScriptDoc tag quick reference
- Generating HTML documentation from ScriptDoc
Scripting with Eclipse Monkey
- About Eclipse Monkey
- About the Eclipse Monkey sample projects
- Creating a new Eclipse Monkey script
- Adding metadata to an Eclipse Monkey script
- Tips and tricks for writing Eclipse Monkey scripts
- Eclipse Monkey scripting with Ruby
- Example scripts
Using other libraries with Aptana
RadRails
- RadRails FAQ
- Aptana and RadRails compatibility chart
- Helpful RadRails links
- Mac OS X Tips
- About RadRails
- Installing and configuring RadRails
- Getting started with RadRails
- Tutorial: Getting started rolling with Ruby on Rails in RadRails
- Tutorial: Setting up the Cookbook database in RadRails
- Starting a new RadRails project
- Importing an existing project into RadRails
- Building an application in RadRails
- Running a unit test on RadRails
- Creating and running a WEBrick server
- Executing SQL statements in RadRails
- Browsing a database in RadRails
- Using a Mongrel server
- Using RadRails Views
- About the Ruby Profiler Perspective
- Configuring the Eclipse SQL Explorer plug-in for RadRails
- Fast Rails Debugging using Aptana Rails IDE
- Eclipse Monkey scripting with Ruby
RDT (Ruby Development Tools)
- Getting Started with RDT
- Ruby development concepts
- Ruby projects
- Ruby gems
- Ruby perspectives
- Ruby Resources View
- RHTML Editor
- Ruby Editor
- Ruby Console View
- Ruby Outline View
- Ruby Gems View
- Ruby Call Hierarchy View
- RI View (Ruby development)
- Ruby Search
- Syntax Errors and Problems View (Ruby development)
- Task List (Ruby development)
- Running a Ruby application
- Running a Test::Unit Test (Ruby)
- Ruby Debugger
Developing Adobe AIR projects
- About Adobe AIR
- Getting started with AIR development
- Configuring the AIR runtime
- Creating an AIR project
- Running an AIR application
- Exporting an AIR project
Developing for the Apple iPhone
- About Apple iPhone development
- Installing the iPhone plug-in
- Previewing an iPhone sample project
- Creating a new iPhone project
- Creating an iPhone run configuration
- Viewing a project on your iPhone
- Using console logging for the iPhone
Reference
Aptana Release Notes
Aptana credits and acknowledgments
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