I am encountering a series of problems using NetBeans 6 in b79 out of the box with the native Ruby installation. I'll log some issues, but I thought I'd describe it here too.
- Start NetBeans 6 - File->New Project... - Choose Ruby, Ruby on Rails Application - Click Next - It will ask you which Ruby interpreter to use. Choose the native interpreter at /usr/ruby/1.8/bin - Click Next - The next window says: "Ruby Gems is not accessible" If you click on [Details] it says "The 'gem' tool is installed on your system, but the gem repository could not be found. You may try to set $GEM_HOME and run IDE again" I poked around, and the gem home is at /var/ruby/1.8/gem_home. If I set $GEM_HOME and restart Now when I try the same thing, I get the same error, and the Details window says: "The gem directory is not writeable as this user" #...@% OK, 'chmod -R a+w gem_home', try again "Rails is not installed" Rails is not installed? Is that really true, that the webstack Ruby support doesn't include Rails? OK, press on "Install Rails" "Bulk updating Gem source index for http://gems.rubyforge.org ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem:GemNotFoundException) could not find rails (>0) in any repository Oh, OK, great. At this point I am stumped and gave up. So here are the issues as I see them: - NetBeans Ruby needs to know where the gem home is, without me having to set GEM_HOME. At a minimum I should be able to pick the gem home without having to When I did this with the Cool Stack in SXDE 09/07, it worked out of the box, without me having to set $GEM_HOME. - We need a *writeable* gem home - We need Rails pre-installed. Your thoughts? Thanks, David -- David W. Van Couvering http://davidvancouvering.blogspot.com
