Installing RubyMine

There is no actual “installer” for RubyMine on Linux. You just extract it to a folder of your choice. (I put mine in /home/matt/apps/RunyMine-4.0.3/). If you try to place it in one of the more locked-down system folder, you could run into permissions problems, which always drives me nuts. So I just create and “apps” folder in my Home folder, and drop all my non-Ubuntu-Software-Center packages in separate folders there.

You can read the RubyMine Installation Instructions in the file named “Install-Linux-tar.txt” file which is located in the archive file for RubyMine that you will download from JetBrains. (http://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/download/).  It will tell you where to unzip the files, and how to launch RubyMine after you’ve extracted it from the archive. (Note to Windows users… All this talk about “tar” and “archive” is basically what us Windows folks call a “zip” file.) After you download the archive from the JetBrains site, right click on it and open it with the Archive Manager. From there you can extract it to a folder of your choice. After that, it’s ready to run RubyMine (well, after you follow the next step…)

Sun Java JDK

RubyMine requires the Sun Java JDK environment to make its fancy GUI stuff work (note: RubyMine does not work well with OpenJDK, so don’t use this one by mistake!). Unfortunately, the Ubuntu Software Center does not have a click-easy installer for this, so you’ve got to do it in a terminal window, but trust me, it’s not hard. I followed this guide (from a Question/Answer on StackOverflow) to install the Sun Java JDK 1.7.0 in my new Ubuntu machine:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10178601/rubymine-on-linux

Note: This step can be done before or after you extract RubyMine from the .tar download. It’s just that RubyMine will give you an error if you try to run it without having the Sun Java JDK installed.

Done!

With Rails and Ruby installed (see link at the top of this page) and RubyMine extracted, and Sun Java JDK installed, you are ready to ride on the Rails train.

I couldn’t find any specific setup instructions for Ubuntu 12.04 on the web, so I took a chance and followed this Ubuntu 11.10 guide, which worked very well, except I had to make a couple of changes in the instructions, which you can see in my notes following this link:

Here’s the guide I followed :

(However, go ahead and read my change notes below before proceeding…)

http://www.the-tech-tutorial.com/?p=1868

First change:

On the second line of the instructions in the above link, I got an error when apt-get tried to install “libmysqlclient16-dev”.

The correct line should be:

sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core curl libmysqlclient-dev nodejs

Note: You may not even want the git-core, libmysqlclient-dev, and nodejs items if your development style doesn’t use these items. They can always be added later, at any time, using the same command.

I’m pretty sure, however, that everyone will need the build-essential and curl items. In fact, you may notice that these two are repeated in the RVM Requirements step, but that doesn’t hurt anything.

Second change:

In the second step, following the curl command, I had to use this in the terminal window to make RVM work:

source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

Instead of the code in the guide:

umask g+w
source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh

So, I added this to the last line of the existing .bashrc file in my home folder (located at ~/.bashrc) so that I wouldn’t have to enter it every time I open a terminal window. Now, each time I rock a new terminal window, the RVM magic is ready!

Finally,

I found no use for this command in the guide:

sudo chown -R [user]:[user] /usr/local/rvm

Oh, yeah, one more final point about (not) installing gem docs…

I always like to turn off the documentation downloads (rdoc and ri) when installing new gems (I never read the docs locally this way, I always use the web). You can make a permanent change on your system to *not* install gem documentation when installing new gems. Run this line in the terminal window:

echo "gem: --no-rdoc --no-ri" > ~/.gemrc

This will create a .gemrc file in your home folder telling the gem installer not to download the docs when you install new gems. You only need to do this once.

Do this before you run any “gem install” commands, or use Bundler, so that it won’t waste time and space pulling down docs for the gems.

Other guides to help you install Rails on Ubuntu 12.04

This looks like a good guide also, but I have no tested it. It can be run as a shell script to do all the work which you can download from github, but he also shows you each step if you want to do it manually :

http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/05/02/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-in-ubuntu-12-04-lts/

Setting up RubyMine…

If you want to install RubyMine for your Rails development, you can follow my instructions here: http://mattslay.com/installing-rubymine-4-on-ubuntu-12-04/

Other goodies I installed on my new Ubuntu machine:

I installed these personal favorites right from the Ubuntu Software Center  (I’ve listed links so you can learn more about these tools, but I recommend installing them through the Ubuntu Software Center right inside of Ubuntu):

• Krusader (A better File manager than the standard Ubuntu one)
  http://www.krusader.org/
• Konsole (A better Console/Terminal window that then the standard Ubuntu one)
  http://kde.org/applications/system/konsole/
• Tortoise HG Workbench (for Mercurial version control)
  http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/

If you’ve got favorite Linux/Ubuntu tools that you think are helpful to Rails developers, please add them in the comments.

You can download wwBusinessPro from the project hosted on BitBucket.org.

The default table name for the Business Object definition table is “wwBusinessObjects”.dbf”. Just make sure the Path includes the location of this table, and run the form “wwDictionary.scx” to open and edit the rows in this maintenance form.

Here is a screenshot of the Business Object Dictionary form included in wwBusinessPro:

Running this command:

rails generate devise:install

Generates this text:

Some setup you must do manually if you haven’t yet:

1. Ensure you have defined default url options in your environments files. Here
is an example of default_url_options appropriate for a development environment
in config/environments/development.rb:

config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => ‘localhost:3000′ }

In production, :host should be set to the actual host of your application.

2. Ensure you have defined root_url to *something* in your config/routes.rb.
For example:

root :to => “home#index”

3. Ensure you have flash messages in app/views/layouts/application.html.erb.
For example:

<p class=”notice”><%= notice %></p>
<p class=”alert”><%= alert %></p>

4. If you are deploying Rails 3.1 on Heroku, you may want to set:

config.assets.initialize_on_precompile = false

On config/application.rb forcing your application to not access the DB
or load models when precompiling your assets.

I needed these files to run a FoxPro app that I had written which used the TreeView control from the VB6/MSCOMCTL.OCX library.

Here is what I learned and how I got it working:

Getting started

 Note: There are TWO Common Control libraries out there. You must figure out which one you need.

1. The older VB 5 Common Controls (COMTL32.OCX)

     and

2. The newer VB6 Common Controls (MSCOMCTL.OCX):

Regarding the older COMCTL32.OCX (VB5 era) versus the newer MSCOMCTL.OCX from VB6 era, one user on StackOverflow had this to say:

“The earlier Common Controls 5.0 (comctl32.ocx) has better compatibility with XP/Vista than the Common Controls 6.0 (mscomctl.ocx). I suggest using it instead” – rpetrich Aug 13 ’09 at 0:44

Step 0: Before installing either of the Microsoft Common Controls you must have the following versions of the Automation system files on your system:

OLEAUT32.DLL     2.20.4054 or greater
COMCAT.DLL        4.71 or greater
OLEPRO32.DLL    5.00.4055 or greater
ASYCFILT.DLL    2.20.4056 or greater
STDOLE2.TLB        2.20.4054 or greater

You may or may not have these files on your system already. I really don’t know how these files generally get installed on a new system; if they are part of the main OS install, or if they get installed with other common Microsoft suites. My guess is that if you have Office 97, Visual Basic 5.0, Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, or Visual C++, etc, you should already have these Automation system files.

Either way, if you do not have these files on your system, you must first download and install them as documented in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

Download here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180071/EN-US
(Default download filename will be named Msvbvm50.exe)

1. For the older VB 5 Common Controls (COMTL32.OCX):

Follow Step 0 above.
   
Once you are sure you have the correct Automation system files on your computer, you can install COMCTL32.OCX by executing COMCTL32.EXE. This will install the following files:

COMCTL32.OCX    5.00.3828    Updated ActiveX control
COMCTL32.DEP    5.00.3828    Dependency info for Visual Basic 5.0 Setup Wizard
MSSTKPRP.DL      5.00.3714    Design-Time Stock Property Pages

The setup program does not install a *license* to use COMCTL32.OCX for development. You must already have a license installed on your system by one of the products listed in the applies to section above in order to COMCTL32.OCX for development.

Download the COMCTL32 install package here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/update/1/w97/en-us/comctlzp.exe

The default download filename will be comctlzp.exe.
Note: You must then unzip this exe to get the actual installable exe file.
  

2. For the newer VB6 Common Controls (MSCOMCTL.OCX):

Follow Step 0 above.

As far I could determine, there is no official download link from Microsoft for MSCOMCTL.OCX. You can find tons of free download links all over the internet, but those sites always scare me as they might contain viruses or malware.

I learned a lot about the issues around getting the files downloaded and installed here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1226319/whats-the-proper-source-for-windows-common-controls-6-0-component-mscomctl-ocx
   
So, based on the info on the above post, here is what I did:

1. Locate this file (MSCOMCTL.OCX) on some other XP machine that already has the file. Path is C:\Windows\System 32.
2. Copy this file to the same path C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 on the new machine.
3. Register the file by running ‘regsvr32 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSCOMCTL.OCX’ at the command window. (Admin right are probably required.)
4. Reboot.

   
   

If you have any corrections or additional instructions to share, please add a comment so we can get this reference as correct as possible.

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Tonight (Feb 9, 2012), I joined Instapaper as a paying customer so I could use the Search capabilities (searching your links on the web site is only available to those customer who sign up for the $1 per month subscriber account). But, after signing up and finally getting to use Search, it does not appear to be searching the way I was expecting… In fact, I couldn’t get the Search feature to return anything. Evar!

“No results.” it said… (which is not true, in that I have links with HTML5 in the title, url, summary, etc.)

“No Results” ?!?!?!  What the heck is going on here? I know there are some links in my account that have this text in the URL, Title, and/or Description. Why won’t the Instapaper web site find any results?

I want to be able to do a search on the URL, Title, and Summary of the bookmarks, (not the actual contents of the link pages, which I don’t expect it to search anyway). I think most of us usually remember some keyword or tags as we save the links, so I expected to be able to search my links on the Instapaper site and search for “CSS’” or “HTML” or “GIT” or something like that to find links that I’ve stored.

So, I’m going to try to do something about this…. I’ve applied for an oAuth application token to see if I can build a better searching and filtering interface than the one they have now.

This will be a good exercise to sharpen my Ruby on Rails skills.

Boy, I sure hope they approve me…

Update 2012-02-10:

Instapaper sent me my app tokens later on in the same day. (Man, that was fast). And I found a gem on github (https://github.com/spagalloco/instapaper) that provides a nice wrapper around the Instapaper API, and I’ve already banged out a few lines of Ruby code which use the gem to connect to my Instapper account and post a few dummy links. Now I can move on the real work of pulling down all the bookmarks from an account, and providing a search/filter interface for searching through them for keywords or tags in the URL, Title, or Description.

And, here is a screenshot of 4.2.059:

If you can’t get them all, get in touch with me and I’ll help you out. And, if you can add any to the list, please send them to me and I’ll update the post.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Each question below contains the initials of a word that will make it correct.

EXAMPLE: 16 = O. in a P. Ounces in a Pound

1.    26 = L. of the A. ______________________________________________________

2.    7 = W. of the A.W. ____________________________________________________

3.    1001 = A.N. ___________________________________________________________

4.    12 = S. of the Z. ______________________________________________________

5.    54 = C. in a D. (with the J.) __________________________________________

6.    9 = P. in the S.S. _____________________________________________________

7.    88 = P.K. ______________________________________________________________

8.    13 = S. on the A. F. ___________________________________________________

9.    32 = D. F. at which W. F. ______________________________________________

10.    18 = H. on a G.C. ______________________________________________________

11.    90 = D. in a R. A. _____________________________________________________

12.    200 = D. for P. G. in M. _______________________________________________

13.    8 = S. on a S. S. ______________________________________________________

14.    3 = B. M. ( S. H. T. R.) _______________________________________________

15.    4 = Q. in a G. _________________________________________________________

16.    24 = H. in a D. ________________________________________________________

17.    1 = W. on a U. _________________________________________________________

18.    5 = D. in a Z. C. ______________________________________________________

19.    57 = H. V. _____________________________________________________________

20.    11 = P. on a F. T. _____________________________________________________

21.    1000 = W. that a P. is W. ______________________________________________

22.    29 = D. in F. in a L. Y. _______________________________________________

23.    64 = S. on a C. ________________________________________________________

24.    40 = D. and N. of the G. F. ____________________________________________

Good luck.

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