Articles tagged 'ubuntu'
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Rails 3.1 "rails server" error Could not find a JavaScript runtime
September 19, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on September 19, 2011.
I upgraded to rails 3.1.0 and created a new ‘test_app’.
rails new test_app
Got into the directory. Everything was fine, until I tried to run:
rails server
It threw a weird error:
Could not find a JavaScript runtime. See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs for a list of available runtimes.
That’s kinda weird. What does a rails app have to do with any JavaScript runtime? I guess it’s support for something that I still don’t know anything about.
I googled that and found a stackoverflow question. So, two solutions for the issue: either*** install nodejs*** or include “gem ‘execjs’” and “gem ‘therubyracer’” in the Gemfile and run bundle install.
Pick…
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RubyMine vs. Vim: my point of view
September 18, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on September 18, 2011.
So, I tweeted a question earlier today about what editor is preferred by the rubyists and, although I didn’t get many answers, it, combined with a recent discussion I had about RubyMine vs. Vim later, helped me clear my reasoning a bit.
By my reading of Agile Web Development With Rails and some people I follow on twitter, it seems that all the cool geeks use Vim (or TextMate or Emacs) for Ruby and Ruby on Rails programming instead of any IDE.
I once googled to find out that vim was way complicated to set up. That same time, I found akitaonrails vimfiles on github. Fairly easy to set up if you just follow the instructions. But today I realized that there…