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

[brett l. <bre...@gm...>]

I've added some documentation about setting up your development
environment to the wiki.

https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rails/index.php?title=Development_environment_setup

---Brett.



On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:06 PM, john guthrie <gr...@gm...> wrote:
> i went through the same steps as you and got the same result. it looks to me
> like eclipse doesn't recognize "rails" as a JAVA project, so the run
> configuration screen doesn't list it.
> i was able to get it to work by cd'ing into rails, moving the 18xx directory
> up to my workspace, then creating a new java project from existing source
> called 18xx. the run configuration sees that just fine.
> john
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Justin Rebelo <jus...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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