Intellij Ruby Plugin Setup

I tried to install Intellij Ruby Plugin on Mac OS X Leopard. Following the instruction, the installation was fairly straight forward. Then I tried to add Ruby SDK into the plugin. I started with /usr/lib/ruby, /usr/bin/ruby, /usr/bin as home directory, and got "The directory selected is not a valid home for Ruby SDK". What?...My ruby installation does exist in this directory. Actually, Ruby SDK home path has to be /usr

Hope this will save you some time...

BTW: Intellij collapsed twice after I set up the ruby plugin. Not sure what's going on there.

1 comment:

Romeo said...

In Idea Ruby SDK home is a folder that contains subfolder "bin" with ruby or jruby executable. For Windows such behavior is more clear because ruby libraries and gems are located under one root. (by the way see http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/RUBYDEV/FAQ)