Getting Started with FiveRuns Install

FiveRuns Install is a self-contained environment installed into its own directory structure, designed so that it will not interfere with other installations of Ruby, Rails, MySQL and other components.

To get started you will need access the command line and launch a new terminal window. You can find the necessary environment variable information in rminstall/scripts/setenv.sh.

Assuming that FiveRuns Install was installed into your home directory (the default), you can accomplish this by running the following from a new shell prompt:

  $ source ~/rminstall/scripts/setenv.sh

To verify the environment settings have been applied correctly, please locate the 'ruby' binary using the following command:

  $ which ruby

which should return /home/username/rminstall/ruby/bin/ruby where username is the name of your user account, and indicates the 'ruby' binary of FiveRuns Install will be used instead of other pre-installed versions of Ruby.

Every time you open a new terminal window and want to work with FiveRuns Install you will have to set the environment variables via the above source command. If FiveRuns Install is your preferred Ruby on Rails environment you can instruct your shell to automatically execute the command upon every login.

To configure most shells use the following command:

  $ echo "source ~/rminstall/scripts/setenv.sh" >> ~/.profile

For further details and instructions, please review the included README file.