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I have just decided to upgrade Eclipse, and thought it best to start from scratch. I do a lot of work in Java, PHP as well as Ruby on Rails and so I tried to set up an integrated environment using Eclipse. I have documented the steps here as much as a reminder for myself as a guide for other people trying to something similar.

First, download and unzip the Ecipse + J2EE package from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/. You do not need to ‘install’ Eclipse as such, just put the uncompressed directory somewhere logical (/Applications on a Mac, for example).

1. Launch Eclipse
2. Select: Help -> Software Update -> Final and Install.
3. Select Search for new features to install
4. Check the Europa Discovery Service
5. Select Add Remote Site

1. Type in name: Aptana (For javascript support)
2. Type in url: http://update.aptana.com/install/3.2/
3. Select OK

Select Add Remote Site (For Ruby on Rails support)

1. Type in name: RadRails
2. Type in url: http://update.aptana.com/install/rails/3.2/
3. Select OK

Select Add Remote Site (For SVN integration)

1. Type in name: Subclipse
2. Type in url: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.2.x
3. Select OK

Select Add Remote Site (for PHP support)

1. Type in name: PDT
2. Type in url: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/updates/
3. Select OK

Select Add Remove Site (for Hibernate support)

1. Type in name: Hibernate Tools
2. Type in url: http://download.jboss.org/jbosside/updates/development
3. Select OK

Select Finish

Select your nearest mirror, when prompted

Select Eurpoa Discovery Site -> Programming Languages -> Ruby Development Tools

Select PDT

Select Aptana

Select RadRails

Select Subclipse

Select Hibernate Tools

Select Select Required (to resolve dependencies)

Select Next

Accept the agreement(s) and select Next

Select Finish

Go for a walk.

Phew, so after all that, you should have an Eclipse IDE set up to support PHP, Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Java, Hibernate and Subversion. You can, of course, select many other tools from the Europa discovery site for other development tools, graphical editing and the like.