I've been an Eclipse user for a good while now, and also have used the RadRails plugins on and off too. We recently noticed that the people that do RadRails now also do a PHP plugin and bundle the whole thing in a suite called Aptana Studio. All looks pretty good and about the best drop-in open replacement for Dreamweaver I have seen so far. The whole thing can be run as a plugin for Eclipse or standalone packaged product.
I opted to trial the packaged product as apart from me and one other, most of our developers don't use Java. There's a few plugins we rely quite heavily on - Subclipse (subversion access) and Mylyn (for integration with TRAC) - so I was keen to see if these work in Aptana. Subclipse was easy - as the update site was already configured ready to go. Mylyn was a little more difficult (not the same as vanilla Eclipse), so I'll just quickly cover my findings in case anyone else had the same problem.
- Install Aptana studio
- In Software Updates menu, select "Find & Install" and then "Search for New Features"
- Add a new remote site with this url: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update-archive/2.0.0/e3.2 - you have to use Mylyn verson 2.0 as the current Aptana is based on Eclipse 3.2
- This is where things don't work quite right, if you select all Mylyn features you'll get an unresolved dependency (org.eclipse.jdt), if you select just TRAC Connector (hoping dependency checking will work it out) you get another unresolved dependency (org.eclipse.mylyn.context_feature). So, select everything, then deselect "Mylyn Bridge: Java Development" and "Mylyn Bridge: Eclipse SDK". Voila - it should now install.
Something up with the Mylyn dependencies here, it's fixed in the new version, but until Aptana updates to the latest Eclipse we are stuck with this workaround.
