[Rails-devel] Help with getting rails + eclipse running

[Justin R. <jus...@gm...>]

Hey guys. I am attempting to get myself set up with a rails
development environment with Eclipse. I'm not a java programmer, but
I'm interested in having a the environment set up so I can experiment
and learn a bit about both Java and rails (I'm a software developer
already and the java language looks quite natural to me, I just don't
know the libraries, etc).

I believe I'm on the cusp of having this all going, thanks to a
helpful overview courtesy of Phil Davies. I've come across a snag at
what is surely the final step in the process and I'm going to give a
very detailed account here of what I did to get to this point and
hopefully some of you kind folks can spot what I've missed or done
incorrectly. I know this isn't an eclipse support ML, but hopefully
this is topical enough to be acceptable here (as I've heard other
people mention a desire to try the same thing).

Here's what I did and I've linked to screenshots along the way so you
can see exactly what I saw.

Operating System: Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit
% java -version
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.9.7) (6b20-1.9.7-0ubuntu1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 19.0-b09, mixed mode)

(Note that rails has run without issue for me using these versions for
some time, so I am quite sure that the issue here is just an eclipse
setup issue)




1. Installed Eclipse via apt-get.

2. Installed subversive and the ALL available connectors just to make
sure I had it all licked:

http://gotsignal.org/images/eclipse/1.png

3. File->New->Other->SVN->Project from SVN

http://gotsignal.org/images/eclipse/2.png

4. Specified project name 'rails' and using HEAD rev:

http://gotsignal.org/images/eclipse/3.png

5. Checked out source (no problems)

http://gotsignal.org/images/eclipse/4.png

(verification: http://gotsignal.org/images/eclipse/5.png )

6. Set up run configuration (this is where I fall off the rails....as it were):
Disregard the odd visual artifact, it's from the screenshot app. I
chose the project name
I specified when I created the project: 'rails' and the correct main class:

http://gotsignal.org/images/eclipse/6.png


7. Attempt to run results in error: unable to find project

http://gotsignal.org/images/eclipse/8.png

I go back into the run configuration screen and, next to the project
name field, I clicked on the Browse button and get this:

http://gotsignal.org/images/eclipse/7.png (no projects listed, as
though eclipse doesn't see the project I created)

Phil suggested it could be a casing issue, so I tried using run
configuration with project name "Rails" and got the same error.

http://gotsignal.org/images/eclipse/10.png


Just to confirm, I right clicked on the project in the package
explorer and selected properties and you can see the window here:

http://gotsignal.org/images/eclipse/9.png

The window title suggests that the project is in fact called 'rails'.
The only thing I can venture is that, for some reason, Eclipse isn't
recognizing this "Project from SVN" as being a project at all.




Any ideas, folks?

If any more info is needed, just shoot and I'll provide all I can.

Thanks in advance.
Justin