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

[John D. G. <jd...@di...>]

On 08/20/2016 02:26 AM, Martin Brumm wrote:
> Am 20.08.2016 um 02:09 schrieb John David Galt:
>> "sh rails.sh" produces the message:
>> 
>> Error: Unable to access jarfile ./rails-@VERSION@.jar
>> 
>> FWIW, there is no file with a name of that form in the project 
>> directory.  Here's what "ls" produces:
>> 
>> AUTHORS buildRails.xml data doc html images lib LICENSE 
>> localisedText.properties log4j.properties make_rails_pkg.sh 
>> manifest my.properties rails rails.bat Rails-format.xml rails.sh 
>> README readme.txt test tiles tools version.number
>> 
>> 
>> On 08/19/2016 05:02 PM, john guthrie wrote:
>>> Or type: sh rails.sh from the directory it's in
>>> 
>>> On Friday, August 19, 2016, Justin Rebelo
>>> <jus...@gm... <mailto:jus...@gm...>>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I was figuring the issues is that it's not executable, which
>>> it would need to be for a "./script" type command to execute.
>>> 
>>> So what does running "sh rails.sh" produce then? That should
>>> work even with simple read permissions.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 19 Aug 2016, 16:51 John David Galt, 
>>> <jd...@di... 
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jd...@di...');>>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> rails.sh is world readable.  So is java.
>>> 
>>> On 08/18/2016 04:04 PM, Justin Rebelo wrote:
>>>> chmod +x rails.sh
>>>> 
>>>> Alternately, run:
>>>> 
>>>> "sh rails.sh"
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 4:00 PM John David Galt 
>>>> <jd...@di...
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jd...@di...');>
>>>
>>> 
<mailto:jd...@di...
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jd...@di...');>>>
>>>
>>> 
> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Now I've gotten the JDK and git installed, and Rails
>>> cloned.  However,
>>>> when I go to the Rails repository and perform ./rails.sh I
>>>> get "permission denied".  Any ideas?
>>>> 
>>> 
> Good Morning John,
> 
> you havent build the jar-file yet. The directory listing you show
> is the srcdistribution from sourgeforge. rails.sh is in there
> because its needed and will be put into the release file by the
> build process. What kind of IDE do you use or plan to use ? eclipse
> ?
> 
> If so and you have it installed switch to the ant-view in eclipse
> add the build.xml from the root-src-directory and run build project
> or build release. This should lead to a directory named rails-1.9.x
> or rails-2.x to appear :) Inside that directory you'll find another
> rails.sh this then should start rails from the commandline.
> 
> if you want to work without an IDE you need to have "Apache Ant" 
> installed to work with the provided build.xml in the root
> directory.
> 
> Kind regards, Martin

I've gotten Eclipse installed and Rails downloaded, but when I try to
"build project" I get two errors:
*  Default target build does not exist in this project
*  Target clean does not exist in this project

This when looking at build.xml on the screen.  Any ideas?