Examining the Ruby Call Stack

Posted by Chris Blackburn Tue, 22 May 2007 22:52:00 GMT

Have you ever wanted to look at the call stack without raising an exception to do it?

caller.each {|c| puts c}

RadRails on Gentoo

Posted by admin Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:48:00 GMT

Traditionally I use jEdit for writing code. However, the CVS and SVN management in Eclipse cannot be beat.

Since I have all but forsaken other programming languages in favor of Ruby on Rails, Eclipse is more useful to me with the RadRails extension.

I run Gentoo on my workstation, and after searching the web could not find any concise documentation on the best practice for installing RadRails on Gentoo. So, as more often than not I decided to do it myself, and document it here.

I want Eclipse 3.2.x and the Gentoo Java Team strongly suggests everyone upgrade to that version as well.

  • Problem #1: Eclipse 3.2.x is, as of this writing, masked in Gentoo’s Portage
  • Solution #1: Append the following string to the end of your /etc/portage/package.keywords file: 
    dev-util/eclipse-sdk
  • Problem #2: Installing Eclipse
  • Solution #2: Emerge as root: 
    # emerge eclipse-sdk

This may take some time. Portage had 30 dependent ebuilds to emerge before it even got to eclipse-sdk. You may want to grab a Yerba Mate and read your favorite RSS feeds.

After Gentoo is finished emerging everything, beside being an hour or so older, you should be able to launch eclipse.

$ eclipse-3.2

Install RadRails:

  • On the Eclipse menu drill into Help->Software Updates->Find and Install...
  • Select Search for new features to install
  • Click Next

Define RDT Remote Site:

  • Click New Remote Site
  • Name: RDT
  • URL: http://updatesite.rubypeople.org/release
  • Click OK

Define RadRails Remote Site:

  • Click New Remote Site
  • Name: RadRails
  • URL: http://radrails.sourceforge.net/update
  • Click OK

Define Subclipse Remote Site:

  • Click New Remote Site
  • Name: Subclipse
  • URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.0.x
  • Click OK

Make sure all three new remote sites are checked then click Finish and follow the prompts. Eventually Eclipse will prompt for a reboot. Do it, then when it comes back up you have a shiny new install of RadRails.

Happy Coding!

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