Good easy to learn Ruby on Rails developement platform

Hoping you guys can help me here, I'm at the end of my tether. I've been on a course to get into the web developement side of things. Only thing is the course is awful. It's completely disorganised.

Long story short I've got a couple of days to hand in a project that involves doing a simple ecom website that can list products, add new ones and have a basic shopping cart. Has to be done through Ruby on Rails and connect t开发者_C百科o a database. They've had us using Netbeans but so far they can't make it work properly in the college labs and it doesn't work on my laptop either. Does anyone know of a Ruby developeent platform that is easy to instal and use? I've heard good tinhgs about RubyMine but I'm so close to the wire I could really do withsome advice if anyone can help.

Well I usually code on Ubuntu, and so I just use gedit with the gMate package, so it works and acts like TextMate (Mac). I used to work on a Windows machine too and would just use Notepad++ because all I needed was a basic text editor, but with some more goodness than just plain Notepad.

You can checkout this other question about learning Ruby on Rails: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6906839/best-way-to-learn-ruby-on-rails-from-scratch/6906885#6906885

Michael Hartl's book (http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book) is definitely a great way to learn Rails. In it, you basically re-create Twitter. It's really easy to follow, I thought, and you learn a lot. You don't necessarily need to read it straight through though, and can pick and chose what information is relevant to you. But it does go through things like: CRUD (create, retrieve, update, delete) of objects (like creating a new user, showing a user, updating one, deleting one), and how to interact with a database and even how to deploy it on to ye ol' world wide web.