Re: [mylar-dev] using Mylar with RadRails

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

Mik Kersten wrote:
> >  I was helping friend to get Mylar working on popular IDE based on 
> > Eclipse for Ruby on Rails (RadRails). Standalone RadRails IDE has only 
> > a subset of platform plugins, so Mylar didn't work there (even when we 
> > tried to manually install Mylar's plugins since there is no common 
> > update manager either). We ended up installing Eclipse and have pulled 
> > RarRails plugins from their update site, but then we faced number of 
> > issues.
> >     
> Our plug-in modularity is intended to support this, even if the current
> features don't make it convenient.  What's RadRails missing?  
 Apparently there is no org.eclipse.ui.browser which is used by 
org.eclipse.mylar.tasklist plugin.
 After adding this plugin Mylar views (tried 0.6 release) appear in 
RadRails and I can query bugzilla from there. Jira services are 
obviously missing from zipped update site and it is somehow challenging 
for the users to install it, since RadRails is also missing standard 
update manager UI.

 Anyways, I created ticket for RadRails about browser plugin 
http://trac.radrails.org/trac/ticket/1174
 In a mean time I wonder if there is something could be done on Mylar side?
> Seems like you
> could just install by getting the site zip and putting everything there
> other than mylar.java, which requires JDT.  If they don't have eclipse.team
> you'll have to skip mylar.team.  If they don't have PDE you'll have to skip
> mylar.ide, which gets you the Navigator and Project Explorer actions for
> Apply Mylar.  In that case we should consider moving the PDE bridge to
> mylar.java, which is fine since PDE is coupled to eclipse.jdt anyway.
>   
 There is no PDE, but I do see Mylar actions in Navigator view.
> >  First of all "Rails Explorer" view does not show Mylar filtering 
> > icon, so it is not possible to hide out uninteresting resources from 
> > that view.
> >
> >  Secondly, as I expected Mylar does not have bridge for Ruby 
> > structures and as a result interest filter does not seem to work on 
> > Outline view.
> >     
> I just responded to this on bug:
>
> 150772: [bridge] RadRails
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=150772
>
> Also note the corresponding section on the new wiki-based FAQ:
>
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Mylar_FAQ#Integration_with_other_tools
>   
Creating basic connectors is quite easy now. I guess I would have to try 
the bridges...
> >  Anyways, we have tried to use generic "Project Explorer" view and 
> > Mylar filtering seem to work there, however quick unfiltering didn't 
> > work at all. It was running on XUbuntu Linux, so I am not sure if it 
> > was a platform specific issue.
> >
> >  Any thoughts on this are really appreciated.
> >     
 This issue is probably specific to SWT/JFace on linux, which is really 
sad.

 regards,
 Eugene