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3rdRail Installation Notes
By: Dee Elling
Abstract: Installation information for CodeGear 3rdRail, a Ruby on Rails developer environment.
3rdRail™ Installation Notes
For updates to these notes,
see https://dn.codegear.com/article/36926/.
System Requirements
3rdRail has been certified and is supported on the following platforms for this release:
- Mac OS X 10.4 (Intel)
- Win Vista (32-bit)
- Win XP (32-bit)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 (32-bit)
In addition to the officially supported platforms the following operating systems are reported to work:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server & Workstation 5 (32-bit)
- Windows Vista (32-bit on 64-bit hardware)
- Mac OS X 10.4 (PowerPC)
- Ubuntu Feisty (32-bit)
Installing 3rdRail
If you have not already, download and extract 3rdRail from CodeGear https://www.codegear.com/products/3rdRail.
Windows Installation
To install on Windows:
- Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the 3rdRail install directory
- Launch
install_windows.exe
Linux Installation
To install on Linux:
- Open a terminal and navigate to the 3rdRail install directory
- Launch
install_linux.sh
Additional notes:
- The installer does not create shortcuts on Linux.
Mac Installation
To install on a Mac:
- Using Finder, navigate to the 3rdRail install directory
- Launch
install_macosx.app
Known Issue:
- Description: There have been reports of the Mac install failing shortly after launch. In which case there may a problem with the path of the jar file.
The error is "The main class "com.zerog.util.relaunchers.MacOSXRelauncher" could not be found."
- Workaround: Copy the
3rdrail.macosx
folder into /tmp
and run 3rdRail.app
from there.
Additional notes:
- The default target directory is the current user's applications
folder (
~/Applications
), rather than the system applications folder (/Applications
).
Post Installation Instructions
For instructions on confirming the installation and configuring the Ruby Interpreter,
see the readme.html
file or, for more recent notes,
see the Release Notes on CodeGear Developer Network
at https://dn.codegear.com/article/36927.
Product Update Instructions
Before updating 3rdRail for the first time, a small issue with the update configuration must be manually corrected by doing the following:
- If 3rdRail is running, close it
- Using your favorite text editor, open the
<3rdRailHome>/.eclipseproduct
file. Note: Depending on your operating system, this file may be hidden.
- Replace the contents of the file with:
name=Eclipse Platform
id=org.eclipse.platform
version=3.3.0
- Save and close the file.
After making the changes above, you can use the Eclipse Update manager to update 3rdRail via one of the following methods:
Update Option 1: Search for updates on current features
- Launch 3rdRail
- From the main menu, select Help | Software Updates | Find and Install...
- Select Search for updates of the installed features
- Select Finish. Note: Sometimes this process will timeout while trying to locate download sites for certain features. If this happens, just start over.
- Select the CodeGear 3rdRail Updates option and deselect all others
- Select Next
- Review and accept license agreement
- Select Next
- Make sure that the main 3rdRail checkbox is checked
- Select Finish
- Select Install All when prompted for verification to install updates
- Select Yes when prompted to restart
Update Option 2: Search for new features to install
- Launch 3rdRail
- Form the main menu, select Help | Software Updates | Find and Install...
- Select Search for new features to install
- Select Next
- Select CodeGear 3rdRail Discovery site from the list. Make sure that the other sites are deselected.
- Select Finish
- Select CodeGear 3rdRail Discovery from the list
- Select Next
- Make sure that the main 3rdRail checkbox is checked
- Select Finish
- Select Install All when prompted for verification to install updates.
- Select Yes when prompted to restart.
Update Option 3: Manage configuration
- Launch 3rdRail
- Form the main menu, select Help | Software Updates | Manage Configuration
- Expand
<3rdRailInstall>\thirdrail\eclipse
- In the tree on the left, select the node labeled
3rdRail ?.?.?.?
- In the pane on the right, select Scan for updates
- Review and accept the license agreement
- Select Yes when prompted to restart.
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