How to Uninstall RubyMine?

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How do you uninstall RubyMine (from Mac OSX or other systems)?

It doesn't come with an uninstaller (from what I can tell). There are no options to uninstall in the application itself. There is no documentation (except a "Thank you for trying to uninstall..." on their site.

I can drag the App to the trash, but I assume there are Preferences, etc. to also uninstall. I hate to lose files.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ruby/uninstall.html – Abhi Apr 19 '22 at 18:12 — Abhi, Apr 19 '22 at 18:12

score 56 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 10 '21 at 17:45

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You need to delete the following directories:

~/Library/Caches/RubyMine*
~/Library/Application\ Support/RubyMine*
~/Library/Preferences/RubyMine*
~/Library/Preferences/com.jetbrains.rubymine.plist*
~/Library/Logs/RubyMine*

edited Nov 10 '21 at 17:45

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answered Nov 28 '11 at 15:23

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Under ~/Library/Preferences/RubyMine* there's also a file that should be deleted (com.jetbrains.rubymine.plist) – Dominic Tancredi Nov 28 '11 at 15:46
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`~/Library/Application Support/RubyMine*` need to be replaced with `~/Library/Application\ Support/RubyMine*` to escape the space between directory name for the command line use. – Sambit Mar 20 '19 at 07:20

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 29 '15 at 22:01

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Here is a one-liner that should delete all the files associated with RubyMine and print the files found and deleted to stdout.

find ~/Library -type d -iname '*rubymine*' -exec rm -rfv {} \;

answered Dec 29 '15 at 22:01

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score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 25 '13 at 00:17

You need to delete following files, more information for other platform click here

Configuration:

~/Library/Preferences/PRODUCTVERSION

Caches:

~/Library/Caches/PRODUCTVERSION

Plugins:

~/Library/Application Support/PRODUCTVERSION

Logs:

~/Library/Logs/PRODUCTVERSION

PRODUCT would be one of the following:

IntelliJIdea (IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition)
IdeaIC (IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition)
RubyMine
WebIde (WebStrom and PhpStorm use this common directory)
PyCharm

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 28 '11 at 15:22

You can just drag the application to the trash. If you really want to get the preference files, look in ~/Library/Application Support for a folder called "JetBrains" or "RubyMine", and look in ~/Library/Preferences for the preferences file; it probably starts with "com.jetbrains" or has "jetbrains" or "rubymine" in the filename.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 28 '11 at 19:22

Generally Mac OS applications are pretty well-behaved, and you can just get rid of the application bundle itself (preferences may actually be handy to keep around). If you'd like a general solution for getting rid of preference files automatically, try AppTrap.

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