Rails - Mar 2006 - Radrails: workspace in use, choose a different one

I''ve just begun using Radrails and am experiencing a puzzling error.
When I
set my workspace to my home directory/some subdirectory, Radrails starts
correctly. I would like to set the workspace to /var/rails where I have all
of my existing rails apps but Radrails fails to start with the error:
workspace in use, choose a different one. Any ideas? I want to edit the code
in the directory in which it runs, thereby avoiding copying the modded code
to the executable directory.

Thanks
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try removing/renaming the /var/rails/.metadata/.lock file and see if that
corrects it.

if that doesn''t do anything, take a look in the current workspace
.metadata/.log file for a possible reason.

hope that helps.

Chris

On 3/31/06, Stuart Batty <stuart.batty@gmail.com>
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>
> I''ve just begun using Radrails and am experiencing a puzzling
error. When
> I
> set my workspace to my home directory/some subdirectory, Radrails starts
> correctly. I would like to set the workspace to /var/rails where I have
> all
> of my existing rails apps but Radrails fails to start with the error:
> workspace in use, choose a different one. Any ideas? I want to edit the
> code
> in the directory in which it runs, thereby avoiding copying the modded
> code
> to the executable directory.
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> Thanks
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Thanks for the tips. However there isn''t a .metadata directory in
/var/rails.
I''ve never been able to set that as a workspace so it''s not
surprising I
guess. I''ve looked at the .metadata/.log file in my current workspace
but I
can''t understand it.

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try deleting the .lock file in your current workspace (with radrails NOT
running), then start radrails and try to change the workspace.


On 3/31/06, Stuart Batty <stuart.batty@gmail.com>
wrote:
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>
> Thanks for the tips. However there isn''t a .metadata directory in
> /var/rails.
> I''ve never been able to set that as a workspace so it''s
not surprising I
> guess. I''ve looked at the .metadata/.log file in my current
workspace but
> I
> can''t understand it.
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I''m still having problems with this. I''ve searched everywhere
and can''t find
a solution that fits. I''ve just installed the latest version of
Radrails and
deleted the old workspace directory. I''m able to set various
directories in
my home directory as the workspace without error but I can''t set the
/var/rails directory or any of it''s subdirectories as the workspace. I
get
the "workspace in use" error. I''ve tried creating a sym link
from my home
directory to /var/rails but that doesn''t work either. I''ve
searched for a
.metadata directory in every directory I''ve tried to unsuccessfully set
as
the workspace and have yet to find one. It doesn''t appear to have
anything
to do with a .lock file. When I set the workspace to a directory in my home
directory it successfully creates the .metadata directory and the .lock
file. I keep all of my rails apps in /var/rails/ and use virtual servers in
apache so I would like to be able to edit the files directly from the
/var/rails directory.

Does anyone have any ideas? I''m running Ubuntu 5.10
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Update:
I was able to get the workspace set to /var/rails. What I did was set the
workspace to /tmp then I copied the .metadata directory to /var/rails then
deleted the .lock file. I had to chown -R the .metada directory to
stuart:stuart (my username:group) in order for Radrails to be able to write
the .lock file.

I can now open and close Radrails and set /var/rails as the workspace.
However, I can''t create a new project. When I click on the
"Finish" button,
the progress bar just flashes and nothing happens. The new project dialog
just stays open and nothing happens.

I use eclipse for java dev so I''m no noob to the interface. I just
can''t get
this darn thing to work.

How about this problem? Any ideas?
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Never mind me guys, it seems I''m finally getting some where. I finally
chown''d all the directories in /var/rails so eclipse could write to
them.
That seemed to work. Thanks for the previous help.
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