Laurent Julliard
2005-Feb-20 09:01 UTC
[FR-users] [ANN] FreeRide 0.9.3 - The Free Ruby IDE
Version 0.9.3 of FreeRIDE has been released and is available for download! For details and downloads, go to: http://freeride.rubyforge.org/ 0.9.3 is a bug fix release (view menu out of sync, font preferences broken...) and also introduces a new plugin IRB (interactive shell plugin) based on Martin Demello fxirb. Have fun! And, as always, feedback and contributions are welcome. NOTE: If you experience troubles (e.g. crashes) at startup time, delete your FreeRIDE configuration directory in $HOME/.freeride for Linux users or %USERPROFILE%\freeride on Windows to restart from a fresh setting. === 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 * Source navigation by module, class, method, etc. * 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. 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. -- Laurent JULLIARD http://www.moldus.org/~laurent