I first got it running on Windows where on the 'Choose SDK' step of the wizard I selected Ruby SDK and pointed it at
C:\Ruby which worked just fine. IntelliJ figured out it was Ruby 1.8.4 and all was happiness and light.Then I tried the same thing on Linux (I'm using 6.06 Dapper). A
whereis ruby listed /usr/bin/ruby and /usr/lib/ruby. Obviously, /usr/bin didn't work since that ruby was a file. Starngely, /usr/lib/ruby didn't work either.After randomly trying to point IntelliJ at various sub-directories, I decided to compare the directory stucture with that of my Windows installation which had worked out of the box.
Turns out
/usr was the directory which matched c:\ruby. When I pointed IntelliJ at /usr, it picked up the Ruby SDK right off and everyone lived happily ever after.