[ANN] FreeRIDE 0.9.6 - The Free Ruby IDE

[Laurent Julliard]

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@...
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/freeride-devel


_______________________________________________
Freeride-users mailing list
Freeride-users@...
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/freeride-users

[russellf]

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@...
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/freeride-users

[Laurent Julliard]

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@...
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/freeride-users
>

_______________________________________________
Freeride-users mailing list
Freeride-users@...
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/freeride-users

[Chris Hulan]

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


_______________________________________________
Freeride-users mailing list
Freeride-users@...
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/freeride-users