Re: [Rails-users] Rails problems on ubuntu ? Was: [18xx] How do 18XX games get solved? 1856

[Mark W. <mw...@so...>]

On 08/16/16 10:43 AM, John David Galt wrote:
> On 08/15/2016 11:29 PM, Martin Brumm dr....@t-... [18xx]
> wrote:
>> Am 16.08.2016 um 03:46 schrieb John David Galt
>> jd...@di... [18xx]:
>>> On 08/15/2016 10:30 AM, 'Tom McCorry' wrote:
>>>> This has been a fascinating discussion on 1856 strategy. The tone is getting
>>>> a little hostile so hopefully we can keep this to a state your view and not
>>>> a "I need to prove the other person wrong" dialog.
>>>>
>>>> With that said, I would be happy to moderate an 1856 game via Rails to let
>>>> the various strategy proponents show their stuff in a friendly game. Should
>>>> be a great discussion item and a value to the larger 18xx community.
>>>>
>>>> What say ye?
>>> I'm certainly trying to attack only ideas and not people, and I've been
>>> very tempted to intervene to shut down certain recent flame-wars but
>>> decided it wasn't really necessary yet.
>>>
>>> I sent that last missive before I was really ready; what I should have
>>> said is the BBG takes a $90 loan, then buys the LPS's (or GW's) 3-train
>>> for $1090.
>>>
>>> To the game proposal -- I would like to play but I have yet to get Rails
>>> to compile or run on my new Ubuntu system.  Any ideas appreciated.
>>>
>> Hi JDG,
>>
>> care to be a little bit more elaborative on your problems ?
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>
> OK.  I go to
>
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
> and download the JDK,
>     jdk-8u101-linux-x64.tar.gz
> Next, I double click on that file, and extract the files to
>     /home/jdgalt/Programming/Java
> which creates the folder /home/jdgalt/Programming/Java/jdg1.8.0_101 .
>
> This exhausts the instructions given at
>
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/install/linux_jdk.html#BJFGGEFG
> so I don't know what to do next.  I'm guessing there are paths and other
> settings that need to be done before Java will run.
>
> Now, what am I doing wrong?

  Just a note, the issue you are currently having isn't related to rails, but 
rather related to getting java installed.

  However, after you extract it, /home/jdgalt/Programming/Java should contain 
the java installation, eg, the javac executable itself being 
/home/jdgalt/Programming/Java/jdk1.8.0_101/bin/java (some files will exist in 
.../jdk1.8.0_101/jre/bin/

  At least the old official release I have on my system (1.7.12) has a rails.sh, 
but it is a pretty trivial program.  If you use an official release, you 
probably don't need to worry about compiling, and can just do something like:

/home/jdgalt/Programming/Java/dk1.8.0_101/jre/bin/java rails-<version>.jar