Laurent Julliard
2005-Apr-11 15:06 UTC
[FR-users] [ANN] FreeRide 0.9.4 - The Free Ruby IDE
Version 0.9.4 of FreeRIDE has been released and is available for download! For details and downloads, go to: http://freeride.rubyforge.org/ 0.9.4 introduces two major new features that will make you more productive when you write Ruby code: - one is the Ruby Documentation plugin which allows you get instant help on a class or method name whenever yoy hit the F1 button when writing code (Beware it''s terribly addicting...). For this to work properly, the Linux and the Windows installer now comes with the full Ruby Documentation generated (ri format) - second is the "code template" plugin. While typing code press CTRL-J and you''ll see a list of code templates that you can insert by selecting their short name. These templates cannot be customized for now but it will come... However we believe there is already a reasonable list of code templates that you can choose from in 0.9.4 0.9.4 also comes with a number of bug fixes. See the ChangeLog file for details. Also note that the experimental refactoring plugin has been deactivated as this was not working very well and the RRB appears to be no longer maintained. 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 * 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. Laurent Julliard Curt Hibbs -- Laurent JULLIARD http://www.moldus.org/~laurent