Experience of RadRails on Ubuntu?

hi,

I am trying to get RadRails 0.7.2 running on Ubuntu Edgy (6.10) (AMD64 architecture)

I am unable to execute the 'RadRails' executable in my /radrails dir.

I keep getting:

bash: ./RadRails: No such file or directory

The permissions are fine and I have loaded the latest Java RE as perscribed in the Ubuntu documentation.

V strange as it runs fine on my laptop (Ubuntu Dapper (6.06))

Any ideas? Driving me nuts!

Alt, can anyone suggest another IDE or guidelines on how to install Eclipse and the RadRails as a plugin.

Thanks.

hi,

I am trying to get RadRails 0.7.2 running on Ubuntu Edgy (6.10) (AMD64 architecture)

I am unable to execute the 'RadRails' executable in my /radrails dir.

I keep getting:

bash: ./RadRails: No such file or directory

The permissions are fine and I have loaded the latest Java RE as perscribed in the Ubuntu documentation.

So you "cd'ed" to /radrails, then executed "./RadRails"?

I haven't had any problems. Sometimes that message (or one like it) is thrown by a shell script with a nonexistent "#!/bin/foo" command. RadRails is a binary, but maybe it's the same sort of issue; it can't find something.

I assume java and javac are on your path.

V strange as it runs fine on my laptop (Ubuntu Dapper (6.06))

You might try comparing the output of "env" (long) on both machines. I have JAVA_HOME defined, for example, although I don't know if it's necessary. (I define it so I can work with multiple versions...)

Any ideas? Driving me nuts!

Alt, can anyone suggest another IDE or guidelines on how to install Eclipse and the RadRails as a plugin.

I believe the radrails site has instructions for installing as a plugin in another eclipse instance, which is actually what I usually do.

Thanks.

By the way, there is a radrails discussion list.

I am running RadRails nightly on Ubuntu Edgy. Here are the steps:

  1. Install eclipse. I usually get the tarball from eclipse.org and expand it on my disk.

  2. Start up eclipse. Install Radrails using the update site from inside of eclipse. Check the Radrails website for instructions.

That’s all you need to do.

Prabhakar Chaganti wrote:

I am running RadRails nightly on Ubuntu Edgy. Here are the steps:

1. Install eclipse. I usually get the tarball from eclipse.org and expand it on my disk.

2. Start up eclipse. Install Radrails using the update site from inside of eclipse. Check the Radrails website for instructions.

That's all you need to do.

My source tree is over here? Will RR force me to put it into the infamous Eclipse Workspace folder? Or can I reach out to it (like a normal editor)?

Prabhakar Chaganti said the following on 02/20/2007 12:01 PM:

I am running RadRails nightly on Ubuntu Edgy. Here are the steps:

1. Install eclipse. I usually get the tarball from eclipse.org <http://eclipse.org> and expand it on my disk.

Hmm. Its Java so details of which Linux shouldn't matter, should they? It says "Most of the Eclipse SDK is "pure" Java code and has no direct dependence on the underlying operating system. The chief dependence is therefore on the Java Platform itself." It asks for java 2 1.4 I've got 1.4.2

So I untar it and start it. I get a nice splash screen and then, to quote the immortal lines form the original text-mode Adventure game

        Nothing Happens

Well, not nothing. Top and gTop tells me that Java is eating 100% of the CPU, so it must be doing _something_. Waiting, clicking on the icon, all do nothing.

2. Start up eclipse. Install Radrails using the update site from inside of eclipse. Check the Radrails website for instructions.

That's all you need to do.

All? Should I wave a dead chicken over it? Will a frozen one do?

With Eclipse and Java, sometimes I too feel like waving all kinds of things at it :slight_smile:

I am running edgy and thats all i had to do. What platform are you trying this on - Ubuntu? Any linux should work fine, but I have only ever successfully run it on Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo.

You can create a project in eclipse with your source outside of the dreaded workspace :slight_smile:

...

So I untar it and start it. I get a nice splash screen and then, to quote the immortal lines form the original text-mode Adventure game

        Nothing Happens

Well, not nothing. Top and gTop tells me that Java is eating 100% of the CPU, so it must be doing _something_. Waiting, clicking on the icon, all do nothing.

...

You'll probably have to go to eclipse.org and its forums for debugging tips. Do you have this problem with an eclipse distribution without radrails? Can you run other java apps? (There are sample apps with most JDK distros.)

Phlip wrote:

My source tree is over here? Will RR force me to put it into the infamous Eclipse Workspace folder? Or can I reach out to it (like a normal editor)?

Philip, I don't think anyone ever answered you about importing a project into radrails... or rather, hooking an existing project up to radrails.

Here's what I do:

From the file/new menu (or the "new" toolbar icon, or the "new" menu in the context menu when clicking in the "rails navigator") choose "New Rails Project".

In the dialog that opens, type in the name of your project (this doesn't have to be the same name as the rails app's folder).

Uncheck the "Use default location" checkbox and type the path to the existing rails app in the Location text field.

You'll probably want to uncheck the "Generate Rails application skeleton" checkbox. If you don't, radrails should prompt you for whether to overwrite files in the console view (which behaves kind of wonky). If you're hooking up an existing app, it really doesn't make sense to let it try to generate all the files/folders again.

You can also check/uncheck the Create WEBrick/Mongrel server checkboxes; these create launch configurations in the Servers view, which can be pretty handy... puts the server stdout/err into a console view for you (though you'll still want to tail the development.log... which radrails can also do in a console view).

Hope that helps... radrails has some warts, but it's pretty damn sweet considering it's free. It's especially nice if you've already been using eclipse for java development for years.

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Prabhakar Chaganti said the following on 02/20/2007 06:12 PM:

With Eclipse and Java, sometimes I too feel like waving all kinds of things at it :slight_smile:

I am running edgy and thats all i had to do. What platform are you trying this on - Ubuntu? Any linux should work fine, but I have only ever successfully run it on Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo.

It happens that this is Mandrake - sorry, Mandriva But as you say, any Linux should work. Java is, after all, supposed to be portable.

Mandr... is Red-hat derived.

Maybe I'll migrate to Ubuntu if I can ever get kdar to work.

Dean Wampler said the following on 02/20/2007 08:23 PM:

...

So I untar it and start it. I get a nice splash screen and then, to quote the immortal lines form the original text-mode Adventure game

        Nothing Happens

Well, not nothing. Top and gTop tells me that Java is eating 100% of the CPU, so it must be doing _something_. Waiting, clicking on the icon, all do nothing.

...

You'll probably have to go to eclipse.org and its forums for debugging tips. Do you have this problem with an eclipse distribution without radrails?

If you backtrack the thread and look at the bits that weren't carried forward (I tend to delete tails), I took the advice of just loading eclipse.

The splash screen comes up - is that done by java?

Can you run other java apps? (There are sample apps with most JDK distros.)

I'll look into that.

Ben Munat wrote:

Philip, I don't think anyone ever answered you about importing a project intoradrails... or rather, hooking an existing project up toradrails.

Here's what I do:

Just a follow-up; thanks!

I remember Eclipse from back when everyone was crazy over it, and it couldn't even open a file.