This card explains how to install RubyMine for the first time. If you want to upgrade an existing RubyMine installation (after legacy install) to a newer version, see How to upgrade RubyMine.

Option A (new way)

Ubuntu 16.04 comes with snap, a way to package software with all its dependencies. RubyMine is also packaged as a snap.

A snap will always track a channel (like stable, beta) and automatically update to the newest version available in this channel.

To automatically keep up with stable releases install RubyMine via (tracks stable):

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$ sudo snap install rubymine --classic

To only allow minor updates, install the snap with another channel specified:

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$ sudo snap install rubymine --classic --channel=2018.1/stable

further info about snaps

You can list available channels with:

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$ snap info rubymine
name:      rubymine
...
tracking:     stable
refresh-date: 7 days ago, at 09:04 CET
channels:                               
  stable:           2018.3.2 (72) 269MB classic
  candidate:        2018.3.2 (72) 269MB classic
  beta:             2018.3.2 (72) 269MB classic
  edge:             2018.3.2 (72) 269MB classic
  2018.3/stable:    2018.3.2 (72) 269MB classic
  2018.3/candidate: 2018.3.2 (72) 269MB classic
  2018.3/beta:      2018.3.2 (72) 269MB classic
  2018.3/edge:      2018.3.2 (72) 269MB classic
  2018.2/stable:    2018.2.6 (69) 266MB classic
  2018.2/candidate: 2018.2.6 (69) 266MB classic

Check packages installed via snap with:

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$ snap list
Name      Version    Rev   Tracking  Publisher   Notes
core      16-2.36.3  6130  stable    canonical✓  core
rubymine  2018.3.2   72    stable    jetbrains✓  classic

Search for available snaps:

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$ snap find ruby
ruby               2.5.3           rubylang✓       classic  Interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Ruby
rubymine           2018.3.2        jetbrains✓      classic  The Most Intelligent Ruby and Rails IDE
...

Switch channel and install most recent version:

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$ sudo snap refresh rubymine --channel=2018.2/stable

One of the features of snap is to be able to simply roll back to a previous version of an application (including the data associated with the snap) for any reason:

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sudo snap revert rubymine

Option B (legacy way)

• Install the Sun Java JRE

• Download RubyMine

• Unpack the downloaded archive:

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  tar -xzf RubyMine-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
  

• Make a directory for RubyMines:

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  mkdir -p ~/bin/rubymines/
  mkdir -p ~/bin/rubymine/
  

• Move the unpacked RubyMine folder to the desired destination:

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  mv ~/Downloads/RubyMine-X.Y.Z ~/bin/rubymines
  

• Make a symlink:

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  ln -nfs ~/bin/rubymines/RubyMine-X.Y.Z ~/bin/rubymine
  

• Restart X

• Add a launcher icon to your gnome panel. The command to call is /home/$USER/bin/rubymine/bin/rubymine.sh. For the icon there is a nice SVG of the RubyMine logo in that bin folder as well.

• If you're working at makandra, ask the ops team for a RubyMine license.