Installing Eclipse with Ruby / Rails support
February 28, 2007
As stated in my blog, I am having a look at the most well-known Ruby / Rails IDE competitors.
Thus I had a try on Eclipse platform as I couldn’t get RadRails 0.7.2 Standalone version to work with latest RDT plugins that come with refactoring notably.
Version we will install :
Eclipse 3.2.1 with RDT Stable Release (to have a stable environment) or Nightly Build Plugin (in my case 0.8.0.702111959NGT) to test latest RDT features, and RadRails Plugin 0.7.2
Once you installed Eclipse, you need to install those 2 plugins.
- Help Software Update / Find And Install / Search for new features to Install /
Then Add the new Remote sites :
- RadRails : http://radrails.sourceforge.net/update
- RubyPeople Stable Release : http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/release to test main environment. To test latest features like refactoring module, Nightly Builds : http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/nightly
Once you parametrized the Ruby SDK in the options, you are ready!
One important thing which was not mentioned and caused me headache for 2 days is to verify which Java VM eclipse is using. On my ubuntu system, it was using gcj Java vm. This was causing problems when I tried to install Radrails and RDT plugins. I had to uninstall eclipse-gcj and then everything installed properly.
RadRails is currently broken (still not released) for Eclipse 3.4 and up.