Ruby on Rails + Radrails Ubuntu 9.10

[Stoneface]

I installed Ubuntu 9.10 last week and decided to get into Ruby on Rails as well. Installed Apache, Ruby Module, Rails, all Ruby packages. As Radrails was recommended as IDE I donwloaded it. I needed Java Development Kit for this one so I downloaded that as well. But now I keep on starting up Radrails from the download folder by double clicking AptanaRadRails.
How can I really give this program its proper place? And how can I make an Applications > Programming Radrails shortcut?

[Stoneface]

I think I will just install Eclipse + the Radrails plugin. Found a tip here: http://howflow.com/tricks/install_ra...ls_on_ubuntu_8 . Eclipse I can download and install using apt-get. Will post results back later on.

[Stoneface]

Had problems / errors downloading all the latest plugins after I installed Eclipse via

sudo apt-get install eclipse

. But today it seemed to work well again. But when I went to file > new there was no Rails option there. I wonder what plugin I missed after I updated pretty much everything?!

[Stoneface]

I am trying to use a ROR update link: http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/release , but it seems to be pending forever. Maybe Radrails is the only Aptana solution out there that works with Ruby on Rails now?
PS Within Elclipse I found a download Ruby On Rails Get Plugin link but when I clicked that one I got:

Network connection problems encountered during search.
  Unable to access "http://update.aptana.com/install/rails/3.2/".
    Unable to access site: "http://update.aptana.com/install/rails/3.2/" [Server returned HTTP response code: "403 Forbidden" for URL: http://update.aptana.com/install/rails/3.2/.]
    Server returned HTTP response code: "403 Forbidden" for URL: http://update.aptana.com/install/rails/3.2/.
    Unable to access site: "http://update.aptana.com/install/rails/3.2/" [Server returned HTTP response code: "403 Forbidden" for URL: http://update.aptana.com/install/rails/3.2/.]
    Server returned HTTP response code: "403 Forbidden" for URL: http://update.aptana.com/install/rails/3.2/.

[Humbie]

There is a detailed description of how to install the RadRails plugin in Eclipse here.

[Stoneface]

@ Humbie Thanks! Will check it out and let everyone now if it works out.

[Stoneface]

I used that link and then I got:

Cannot complete the install because of a conflicting dependency.
  Software being installed: Aptana RadRails 2.0.1.1257303250-79-17BFRYMUKSUR2NWA7RB8uWcFV (com.aptana.radrails.feature.feature.group 2.0.1.1257303250-79-17BFRYMUKSUR2NWA7RB8uWcFV)
  Software currently installed: Aptana Web Development Tools 1.2.7.024747 (com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.group 1.2.7.024747)
  Only one of the following can be installed at once: 
    Aptana Web Development Tools 2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc (com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.jar 2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc)
    Aptana Web Development Tools 1.2.7.024747 (com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.jar 1.2.7.024747)
  Cannot satisfy dependency:
    From: Aptana Web Development Tools 1.2.7.024747 (com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.group 1.2.7.024747)
    To: com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.jar [1.2.7.024747]
  Cannot satisfy dependency:
    From: Aptana Web Development Tools 2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc (com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.group 2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc)
    To: com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.jar [2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc]
  Cannot satisfy dependency:
    From: Aptana RadRails 2.0.1.1257303250-79-17BFRYMUKSUR2NWA7RB8uWcFV (com.aptana.radrails.feature.feature.group 2.0.1.1257303250-79-17BFRYMUKSUR2NWA7RB8uWcFV)
    To: com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.group [2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc]

I guess I will have to uninstall a package first..

[Stoneface]

Trying to uninstall the packages that cannot work with the Radrails plugin. Eclipse seems to be having a hard time though. Maybe I will shut it down and retry later. Will wait for a little while longer. ...

[Stoneface]

Well I think I managed to uninstall all that is needed. Now I am trying to install the Ruby on Rails or RadRails plugin. It is really slow again so I guess something is still off. If I would have known this would be so hard I would have tried an alternative programm / IDE.

------------------------ Edit -----------------------------------
Strike all that. Again an error:

Cannot complete the install because of a conflicting dependency.
  Software being installed: Aptana RadRails 2.0.1.1257303250-79-17BFRYMUKSUR2NWA7RB8uWcFV (com.aptana.radrails.feature.feature.group 2.0.1.1257303250-79-17BFRYMUKSUR2NWA7RB8uWcFV)
  Software currently installed: Aptana Web Development Tools 1.2.7.024747 (com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.group 1.2.7.024747)
  Only one of the following can be installed at once: 
    Aptana Web Development Tools 2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc (com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.jar 2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc)
    Aptana Web Development Tools 1.2.7.024747 (com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.jar 1.2.7.024747)
  Cannot satisfy dependency:
    From: Aptana Web Development Tools 1.2.7.024747 (com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.group 1.2.7.024747)
    To: com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.jar [1.2.7.024747]
  Cannot satisfy dependency:
    From: Aptana Web Development Tools 2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc (com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.group 2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc)
    To: com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.jar [2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc]
  Cannot satisfy dependency:
    From: Aptana RadRails 2.0.1.1257303250-79-17BFRYMUKSUR2NWA7RB8uWcFV (com.aptana.radrails.feature.feature.group 2.0.1.1257303250-79-17BFRYMUKSUR2NWA7RB8uWcFV)
    To: com.aptana.ide.feature.feature.group [2.0.1.1257296289-7D-17iOHMr0dIcmPqBAZc]

I guess the uninstallation did not work out. I seem to have two Aptana Development tools that cannot be there at the same time with RadRails

How can I completely remove eclipse and all its dependencies so I can start from scratch? I did a sudo apt-get automremove eclipse, but after a reinstallation I had the same sites in the available software site list?!!

[Stoneface]

Well I reinstalled Ubuntu on my Virtual Partition as VmWare Tools did no longer work properly. Then I installed Eclipse and Ruby SDK but then I got this error:

An error occurred while installing the items
  session context was:(profile=PlatformProfile, phase=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.p2.engine.phases.Install, operand=null --> [R]org.eclipse.ant.ui 3.4.1.v20090901_r351, action=org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.actions.InstallBundleAction).
The artifact file for osgi.bundle,org.eclipse.ant.ui,3.4.1.v20090901_r351 was not found.

I found a bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...se/+bug/477944

I am wondering if this is ever going to work out ...