Since I moved everything over to Windows 7 the last program that I had not yet installed was RubyMine (JetBrains awesome IDE for Ruby coders). After I completed my installation I fired up the program and was presented with a great exception dialog:

A quick search proved that the issue is with some settings in the idea properties file:

# path to IDEA config folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes
idea.config.path=${user.home}/.RubyMine10/config

# path to IDEA system folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes
idea.system.path=${user.home}/.RubyMine10/system

# path to user installed plugins folder. Make sure you're using forward slashes
idea.plugins.path=${user.home}/.RubyMine10/config/plugins
(on my system in : C:\Users\Jean-Paul Boodhoo\.RubyMine10

More specifically, RubyMine was not able to write to those folders as they were marked as readonly after install. I quickly changed the folder permissions and RubyMine was able to start up with no problems.

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