Laurent Julliard
2006-Jun-06 20:18 UTC
[FR-users] [ANN] FreeRIDE 0.9.6 - The Free Ruby IDE
Version 0.9.6 of FreeRIDE has been released and is available for download! For details and downloads, go to: http://freeride.rubyforge.org/ 0.9.6 is mostly a bug fix release. The goal was to make FreeRIDE more robust and to fix some annoying bugs reported by the users. This includes changes to the debugger, IRB, project manager, etc... See the Changelog for details. **IMPORTANT NOTE** Due to some changes in the FreeRIDE property files users may experience crash at startup time. If this is so delete the directory %USERPROFILE%\freeride (on Windows) or $HOME/.freeride on Linux before starting FreeRIDE again. === FreeRIDE Overview == FreeRIDE aims to be a full-featured, first-class IDE on a par with those available for other languages, with all the best-of-breed features that you would expect in a high-end IDE. Some of FreeRIDE''s features include: * Multi-file editing * Syntax highlighting * Auto-indenting * Code Folding * Code Templates * Source navigation by module, class, method, etc. * Integrated Ruby Documentation * Integrated debugging * Written in Ruby for easy extension Some planned features include: * Full internationalization * High-end refactoring support * Remote pair programming In its current state, FreeRIDE cannot yet be called a real IDE although it is already being used by many Ruby developers. What is does have is a stable infrastructure with all the working plumbing needed for the hordes of anxious Ruby developers that want to create plugins to extend the functionality of FreeRIDE. The FreeRIDE team will be working on such FreeRIDE plugins that we will individually release to incrementally improve the FreeRIDE system. Periodically we will rollup these added plugins into new releases of FreeRIDE. Even if you have not officially joined the FreeRIDE team you can still create plugins for you own use, share them with others, or send them to us and we will make them available for download from our project wiki. We may even ask for your permission to include them in the FreeRIDE core distribution. ** IMPORTANT NOTE ** Any help you can provide in testing FreeRIDE, qualifying bugs and (why not) fixing them is really what we need most, especially on Windows where FreeRIDE seems to be less robust than on Linux. Curt Hibbs Laurent Julliard Jonathan Maasland _______________________________________________ Freeride-devel mailing list Freeride-devel at rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/freeride-devel
Hi Laurent, Laurent Julliard wrote:> Version 0.9.6 of FreeRIDE has been released and is available for download! >which versions of fox does .9.6 work with? I remember downloading a previous version and finding that the version of fox that I was using was more recent than the one FreeRide required. If FreeRide still requires particular versions on fox then it would be useful to have this stated prominently on the web site and release announcement. This is not criticism of the project for sticking with older versions of fox (I know there were some major API changes between 1.2 and 1.4) I would just prefer it if it were stated up front so I don''t waste time downloading and installing it only to find that it won''t work with my version of fox. Cheers, Russell (who would like to use freeride to help build his new Open Source) Log Processing Framework. ;)
Laurent Julliard
2006-Jun-07 06:47 UTC
[FR-users] [ANN] FreeRIDE 0.9.6 - The Free Ruby IDE
Russell, You are right that FR requires FOX 1.2. Because FR has this dependency (as well as many others) the prefered way of installing FreeRIDE is to use the installers (even for Linux). It comes packaged with everything required and you don''t have to bother with which version of Ruby/FOX/FXScintilla, etc... is installed on your machine. So see for yourself: go and get the Linux installer, run it and then launch FreeRIDE. It should work like a charm. Laurent Russell Fulton wrote:> Hi Laurent, > > Laurent Julliard wrote: >> Version 0.9.6 of FreeRIDE has been released and is available for download! >> > which versions of fox does .9.6 work with? I remember downloading a > previous version and finding that the version of fox that I was using > was more recent than the one FreeRide required. > > If FreeRide still requires particular versions on fox then it would be > useful to have this stated prominently on the web site and release > announcement. > > This is not criticism of the project for sticking with older versions of > fox (I know there were some major API changes between 1.2 and 1.4) I > would just prefer it if it were stated up front so I don''t waste time > downloading and installing it only to find that it won''t work with my > version of fox. > > Cheers, Russell (who would like to use freeride to help build his new > Open Source) Log Processing Framework. ;) > > _______________________________________________ > Freeride-users mailing list > Freeride-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/freeride-users >
Just a note to say thanks for the efforts. On the down side, I have installed it on Win2k and got a couple of crashes with just a few minutes of use. The last crash I ran from a console and discovered it was due to running out of memory. I had opend the Databus Inspector, selected an entry and it hung till it crashed... I''ll try it again (at home) on WinXP and see how it goes. I''ll submit a detailed bug note when I get a chance to clarify the scenario And if i get some free time (Ha!) I may even have a look at the code... Cheers Chris