Rhodes Installation

Installing Rhodes(Rhomobile)

These are the steps to install rhodes

Step 1 : Install Ruby: Better download window installer for Ruby 1.8.6 or 1.8.7. I am using ruby 1.8.7 and it work good for me. You can download it from http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/

Note : Don’t forget to add ruby to your path(It will ask you while installing ruby). You can test it from command prompt by typing ruby -v

Step 2: Install rubygems: Any version above 1.3.5 will work

Step 3: Install GNU : Install GNU for windows so that commands like make etc can work. You can download it from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm for windows. For Linux and Mac it will be already installed.

Step 4: Install JDK : Install JDK version 1.6.0_2 or higher. You can download it from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Make sure you set JAVA_HOME and that JAVA_HOME/bin is on your path.

Major issues which may prompt are:

--If you get any "no such file to load -- something" messages while running the rake tasks or rhogen commands, this can usually be resolved by running '[sudo] gem install something'.

-- If your libintl3.dll is not loaded then download it by googling and put in bin folder.

Step 5 : You can install Rhodes in two ways

- Download it from git

- Download it as gem

I will prefer download it as gem. Just type on command prompt

gem install rhodes

Step 6: Install Simulator : Install the simulator of the phone for which you want to build application

1.) Blackberry : You can download the latest version of simulator from the following URL : https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=060AD92489947D410D897474079C1477

2.) Iphone: You can install it from apple website. But it will work on apple machine.

3.) Android : You can download the latest version of simulator from the following URL :

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

You are ready to create your first application.