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Setting Up a Development Environment

Setting Up a Development Environment

Learn how to set up the development environment for API-on-Rails on your PC.

The required tools

The basic environment tools that we need are:

  • Text editors and Terminal
  • Browsers
  • Package manager
  • Ruby

Tools Preferences and Installation

Text Editors and Terminals

Any of the following editors will do the job for us:

  • Vim
  • Sublime Text
  • Atom

Browsers

When it comes to browsers, Firefox, Chrome, or even Safari all work well. Any of these will help us build the application we want. They come with a nice inspector not just for the DOM but also for network analysis and many other features.

Package Manager

macOS

There are many options to manage how you install packages on a Mac such as MacPorts or ...