RubyMine is an all-new IDE for Ruby and Rails developers, developed by JetBrains (best known for Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA). RubyMine build upon the IntelliJ IDEA platform and brings together all of the essential features you expect of an IDE (editor, debugging tools, source control integration, code completion, and so forth) along with lots of extra goodies specific to Ruby, such as GUI-based support for RSpec and Test.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation RubyMine on a Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server.
Install RubyMine on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
Step 2. Installing Snappy Package Manager.
Install Snappy package manager type following command:
sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open
Step 3. Installing RubyMine on Ubuntu.
First, download and installed RubyMine snap package run following command:
sudo snap install rubymine --classic
After successful installation to start RubyMine via terminal run following command:
rubymine
Also start RubyMine from activities on Ubuntu. Typing RubyMine will show you RubyMine icon.
Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed RubyMine. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing RubyMine on your Ubuntu 18.04 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official RubyMine website.