# 2nd Release of Visual Ruby **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\ **Created:** [April 2, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474 "2012-04-02T04:32:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/1 "2012-04-02T04:32:08Z")
Hi y’all: I’ve just added support for active\_record to visualruby, so you can add active\_record objects to listviews and treeviews. I’ve also updated the documentation today. So, its time for the second release! go to: [http://visualruby.net](http://visualruby.net) (click on download) If any of you have time, please try to install it, and let me know how it goes. I’m getting a fair number of downloads, but I suspect that people are encountering install issues. I’d really like to know what’s going on. Thanks for all of your great work. Yours, Eric ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/2 "2012-04-02T17:34:04Z")
I had tried it and it was failing because it couldn’t find devkit (cairo) even though I had it installed and checked the windows path. This version though installed ok and I have it running and ran the simple example script fine. As soon as I get more time I will give it a proper whirl. Can I ask about licensing? If it is something you want to get paid for (which is absolutely fine) then I would prefer to know before I put too much time into it. If it is open source then I would learn it rather than start on GTK itself. Also, I know you disagree, but I still think version numbers would be a good idea, even at this stage. It helps us keep track 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/3 "2012-04-02T17:36:49Z")
Oh one error I am getting, which doesn’t seem to affect much: Gtk-WARNING: \*\*:Unknown property: GtkMenu.ubuntu-local ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/4 "2012-04-03T01:15:38Z")
Thanks Kevin. I appreciate your help. The cairo error kou fixed. It was a problem with the gtk2 gem. The “unknown property” is a bug in GTK and they fixed it as well. However, the bug report that I read said that it was fixed in mid-2011, and it doesn’t seem to be reflected in the versions that are available for download. The gtk files from the glade page are dated 2009. I don’t know how to install the latest files. Anyone? In the meantime, you can just ignore the warning. It doesn’t seem to affect anything. Yours, Eric ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/5 "2012-04-25T02:40:18Z")
Recent Ruby convert and now trying visualruby for a GUI for an application I wrote. Have just followed instructions here: [http://visualruby.net/site/Download.html](http://visualruby.net/site/Download.html) for Windows install. Following the 10 minute video I created a new project. Getting the following error when I right-click to “Edit Glade File” “The following command couldn’t run: C:\Program Files (x86)\Gtk+\bin\glade-3 C:/VisualRuby/anothertest/bin/glade/MyClass.glade Check the path in Tools \> Settings” I also cannot run Glade from the Settings menu using any of the supplied command lines. I can run Glade using Windows Run command with the same command line VR tried, ie: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Gtk+\bin\glade-3 C:/VisualRuby/anothertest/bin/glade/MyClass.glade” Stuck at pretty basic level here but, I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong here. ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/6 "2012-04-25T20:34:28Z")
Two other facts re the failure to open Glade issue: If I open one of the example projects supplied, then right-click “Edit Glade File” does open Glade as expected. If I create my own project in the same folder (C:\Users\James\_Flanagan\visualruby\_examples) those projects have the same problem noted above, ie right-click “Edit Glade File” does not open Glade. thanks in advance for your ideas - Jim ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/7 "2012-04-10T18:02:18Z")
Eric C. wrote in post #1054542: Hello, > I’m getting a fair number of downloads, but I suspect that > people are encountering install issues. I’d really like to know what’s > going on. It’s seem that when we conserve lot of versions in [rubygems.org](http://rubygems.org), the statistics became wrong : there are some web scraper which download every reference each time the page change… I use ‘gem yank -v x.y.y project-name’ for conserve only last version in the project home page list. I have same strange feeling with my little Ruiby tools : lot of downloads, no so much echos… Regards, Regis ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/8 "2012-04-27T08:01:41Z")
Hi Jim: Thanks for the feedback. I believe that there is a problem with your path. When the ruby command line is installed I think it has a different path than the normal command prompt. So whatever command works at the ruby command prompt, should work with visualruby too. Look under start \> Programs \> Ruby Command prompt try getting glade to run at that prompt. You can also try to print the PATH environment variable to see what paths are included. I believe these will be different from your normal command prompt. Also, I believe that if you give the full path to the executable, it should work too. Please try these suggestions, and report back. I vaguely remember encountering this problem myself. I’m using linux now, but I will try on my computer in Windows too. Let me know what happens, or if you’re still unclear on the problem. Thanks, Eric ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/9 "2012-04-27T08:04:56Z")
Also, I think it actually is working on your computer because it works with the examples. Just make sure that your project, “anothertest” has the exact same glade command (in settings) as the examples, and it should work. Visualruby has different settings for each project, so check the settings on each one. I think this must be the problem. Eric ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/10 "2012-05-05T13:58:01Z")
Jim, you might be interested in this PATH editor, it makes it easy to check/change the path to ruby.exe in windows: [http://www.redfernplace.com/software-projects/patheditor/](http://www.redfernplace.com/software-projects/patheditor/) Jim Flanagan wrote in post #1058200: > Recent Ruby convert and now trying visualruby for a GUI for an > application I wrote. Have just followed instructions here: > [http://visualruby.net/site/Download.html](http://visualruby.net/site/Download.html) > for Windows install. > > Following the 10 minute video I created a new project. > > Getting the following error when I right-click to “Edit Glade File” > “The following command couldn’t run: > C:\Program Files (x86)\Gtk+\bin\glade-3 > C:/VisualRuby/anothertest/bin/glade/MyClass.glade > Check the path in Tools \> Settings” > > I also cannot run Glade from the Settings menu using any of the supplied > command lines. > > I can run Glade using Windows Run command with the same command line VR > tried, ie: > “C:\Program Files (x86)\Gtk+\bin\glade-3 > C:/VisualRuby/anothertest/bin/glade/MyClass.glade” > > Stuck at pretty basic level here but, I would appreciate it if anyone > can tell me what I am doing wrong here. ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/11 "2012-05-09T20:50:25Z")
Jim - I found that if I upgraded to win32 Glade 3.8.1 then any opening windows/editing Glade file problems went away. This was more than a path problem because the Glade icon would show in the tool bar. I do see that creating a new project doesn’t give the skeleton anymore. There is no main.rb. I don’t know if that’s a 0.0.59 difference from 0.0.55 or a result of my Glade upgrade. Mike ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/12 "2012-05-14T23:50:45Z")
Hi Mike: Are you sure the skeleton project isn’t being created correctly? I just tried it on my machine and it worked fine. To test, select the “open project” tool. Select the “Select Folder” button. Select “Create Folder” and type in a folder name and press enter. The box should be empty and pink for a new folder. Then hit the “Open” button. Visualruby should be open with a blank project. Hit the run button and a “Hello World” window whould appear. Is this what you get? There is no main.rb file anymore. It’s replaced with a file that is called simple “main” (no .rb extension). I did this because when you make an executable program its nice to omit the .rb so it can be run more easily on the command line. Please give me feedback. Do you understand how to use it? Thanks, Eric ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/13 "2012-06-26T18:16:37Z")
Wow cool, will soon try it out. I think it has got a great potential. Going thru screen cast. ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/14 "2012-06-21T17:31:12Z")
Hi Eric (my first post on this forum) VR looks v.interesting. I only know little bits of ruby and gtk, but thought I would try to follow your download instructions exactly on a win7 32-bit machine from the point-of-view of an absolute novice, and report on any problems. Here we go: I’m reading your downloads page… As suggested, removed existing ruby-gnome. Installed specified version of ruby (leaving a previous one there). I checked the 3 boxes for Tcl, Add to PATH, Associate with .rb. Not sure if needed to do this. Installed your glade download. Now to install vr. You say: Install viusualruby by going to Start \> Command Prompt With Ruby and entering the command: gem install visualruby (There is a typo: viusual) What is ‘Command Prompt with Ruby’? It is not on my Start menu. I just chose Command Prompt (it was currently in one of my other folders, but the install worked OK. Good! (The final line of the gem output was: file ‘lib’ not found) I then typed vr at the command prompt - it seems that this command worked from any directory. I got the warning: C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/vrlib-0.0.32/lib/GladeGUI.rb: line 127 Gtk-WARNING \*\*:Unknown property: GtkMenu.ubuntu-local Runs fine - looks great - tried some of your examples. Tried the help menu - it needs an ‘about’ - I know you know this! Tried Help…Tutorials. Gives the error: The following command couldn’t run: firefox [http://www.visualruby.net](http://www.visualruby.net) Check the path in Tools \> Settings So I did indeed check the path, and the default setting is firefox - I set this again. (I use firefox v12.0) Same problem. I explored this. Typing firefox or firefox.exe results in a message saying that it is not recognised as a program or command - unless I run the command prompt in the folder that firefox is installed in. So, you maybe need the full path to firefox, or maybe you could just exec the web address and let windows run its default browser. Not sure which is best or portable. Good luck, great stuff! Mike ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/15 "2012-07-05T02:28:00Z")
Sorry for the late response. Mike, I’m running Windows 7 and when it installs ruby, it does install a program on the start munu called “Command Prompt with Ruby.” I don’t know why your machine is different. But it works! Don’t worry about the “Ubuntu local” warning. Its a bug that doesn’t hurt anything. The browser command is simply the command you run from the command prompt to start your browser. I don’t think the exec command can be substituted because it will stop the current process. The “lib” not found error means you need to install rdoc (I think). I’m not sure. If anyone knows about this please post the answer. Thanks, Eric ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/16 "2012-07-05T03:05:41Z")
I’m trying to install vr on Ubuntu 11.04, and after running: {{ sudo gem install visualruby }} I get the following error: ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::ENOENT) No such file or directory - /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/visualruby-0.1.0/["."]/vr Any suggestions would be appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 6:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/17 "2012-07-11T06:25:09Z")
Sorry for the late response. If you’re running rvm, sometimes you need to omit the “sudo” part of the command: gem install visualruby Also check to see if your ruby versions match. The path in your error is using ruby version 1.9.1. Is this the version you intended? Your gem install command should install visualruby into the path that corresponds to the version of ruby you’re using. For example, when you use ruby 1.9.3 it should install into a path that corresponds to version 1.9.3 etc. Check each step. Let me know how it goes. Eric ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/18 "2012-07-11T17:34:28Z")
> Also check to see if your ruby versions match. The path in your error > is using ruby version 1.9.1. Is this the version you intended? Your > gem install command should install visualruby into the path that > corresponds to the version of ruby you’re using. For example, when you > use ruby 1.9.3 it should install into a path that corresponds to version > 1.9.3 etc. Note, that 1.9.1 directory under your ruby home path will say Ruby 1.9.1 regardless if its 1.9.1, 1.9.2, or 1.9.3. It doesn’t mean that your ruby interpreter is 1.9.1, why this is can be answered by some one I am sure. I have a number of ruby builds on my system. 1.9.1, 1.9.2, and 1.9.3 all installed to there own location. The 1.9.1 directory tree appears under all them. It does NOT create a 1.9.2 or 1.9.3 directory. ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/19 "2012-07-13T02:59:38Z")
Eric C. wrote in post #1068223: > Also check to see if your ruby versions match. The path in your error > is using ruby version 1.9.1. Is this the version you intended? Your > gem install command should install visualruby into the path that > corresponds to the version of ruby you’re using. For example, when you > use ruby 1.9.3 it should install into a path that corresponds to version > 1.9.3 etc. > > Check each step. > > Let me know how it goes. > > Eric I did not have vrm installed, and I was switching between 1.8 and 1.9.1 with a home grown script. I have since installed the missing vrm and also Ruby 1.9.3. I now managed to install {{ visualruby }}. Thank you for your reply 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@ericrchr](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericrchr)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474/20 "2012-10-28T05:18:24Z")
Eric C. wrote in post #1054542: > Hi y’all: > > I’ve just added support for active\_record to visualruby, so you can add > active\_record objects to listviews and treeviews. I’ve also updated the > documentation today. > > So, its time for the second release! > > go to: > > [http://visualruby.net](http://visualruby.net) (click on download) > > Yours, > Eric This software rocks! [Next page](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2nd-release-of-visual-ruby/218474.md?page=2)