ANN: FreeRIDE 0.5.0 Final Release

ruby-talk
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The final release of FreeRIDE version 0.5.0 is available for download! For
details, go to:

http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

=== 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
  • 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.

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I just want to be clear about something. Does the integrated debugging
functionality work yet? The Linux version didn’t seem to have it. Perhaps it
needs to be turned on?

Once that is working it will be my Linux Ruby IDE of choice (over VIM).

Steve Tuckner

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-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Hibbs [mailto:curt@hibbs.com]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 1:46 AM
To: ruby-talk ML; freeride-announce@nongnu.org
Subject: ANN: FreeRIDE 0.5.0 Final Release

The final release of FreeRIDE version 0.5.0 is available for
download! For
details, go to:

http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

=== 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
  • 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.

3

I’ll bet there is a glaringly obvious Download link somewhere that I
just don’t see. (Looking for the Linux version)

Thanks,
JJ

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On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 02:46, Curt Hibbs wrote:

The final release of FreeRIDE version 0.5.0 is available for download! For
details, go to:

http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

=== 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
  • 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.

4

just tested Win32 version (linux version si for tomorrow :slight_smile:

Just one thing:: running at 800x600 (my ol 15" is too little at 1024
for me) the main window is bigger that the desktop …

Oh, I suppose that must be a “debug” option somewhere but I can’t see
it, but is nice to see the Icons on the toolbar “highlihtged”.

One thing: why don’t add a simple “check syntax” (ruby -c) command ?

and BTW this is great and still not crashed :wink:

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il Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:46:09 +0900, “Curt Hibbs” curt@hibbs.com ha scritto::

5

oh, I forgot to ask this:
Is code folding in the editpane planned ?
I think scintilla can do it, at least I saw it in scite and
PracticalRuby so I think it could be little work…

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il Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:46:09 +0900, “Curt Hibbs” curt@hibbs.com ha scritto::

The final release of FreeRIDE version 0.5.0 is available for download! For
details, go to:

http://www.rubyide.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

6

John Johnson wrote:

I’ll bet there is a glaringly obvious Download link somewhere that I
just don’t see. (Looking for the Linux version)

Thanks,
JJ

It’s probably obvious only to me :slight_smile: You can download the files here:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=freeride

You need to installed FOX, FXScintilla, and FXRuby (make sure you build
FXRuby with its special option to include FXScintilla). If you are running a
Debian system, do not download from the above link, instead read this:

rubyide.org

Good luck!

Curt

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gabriele renzi wrote

just tested Win32 version (linux version si for tomorrow :slight_smile:

Just one thing:: running at 800x600 (my ol 15" is too little at 1024
for me) the main window is bigger that the desktop …

Yes, we have a bug report on this one. For now, just use your mouse to grab
the edges of the window and resize it. FreeRIDE will remember the new size
for next time.

Oh, I suppose that must be a “debug” option somewhere but I can’t see
it, but is nice to see the Icons on the toolbar “highlihtged”.

I just posted a message to ruby-talk about this. It turns out that the
debugger plugin has its autoload property set to “false” so the debugger is
not being loaded.

Edit the file:

.../freeride/plugins/rubyide_tools_debugger/plugin.yaml

and change the line “autoload: false” to “autoload: true”.

One thing: why don’t add a simple “check syntax” (ruby -c) command ?

Sounds like a nice little plugin project for someone to try out – anyone
interested?

and BTW this is great and still not crashed :wink:

Thanks.

Curt

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gabriele renzi wrote:

oh, I forgot to ask this:
Is code folding in the editpane planned ?
I think scintilla can do it, at least I saw it in scite and
PracticalRuby so I think it could be little work…

Yes it is. In fact, I think Rich Kilmer might already be working on it.

Curt

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Just one thing:: running at 800x600 (my ol 15" is too little at 1024
for me) the main window is bigger that the desktop …

Yes, we have a bug report on this one. For now, just use your mouse to grab
the edges of the window and resize it. FreeRIDE will remember the new size
for next time.

ok, works thanks

Oh, I suppose that must be a “debug” option somewhere but I can’t see
it, but is nice to see the Icons on the toolbar “highlihtged”.

I just posted a message to ruby-talk about this. It turns out that the
debugger plugin has its autoload property set to “false” so the debugger is
not being loaded.

just seen, thanks again

One thing: why don’t add a simple “check syntax” (ruby -c) command ?

Sounds like a nice little plugin project for someone to try out – anyone
interested?

Ok, I had to go the my university course but I didn’t wake up.
So this morning I made some search & replace over script_runner and
obtained something that seem to work:
http://irc.dis.uniroma1.it/~loser/syntax_checker.tgz

actually, the interesting fact is that: this seem to work, (I din’t
tested it much , but it is 99% script_runner.rb so it should work
anyway) but I dont’ understand most of what I did!
dunno if this is good cause writing plugins is so easy or bad cause
I’m stupid… oh nevermind…

thanks

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il Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:44:05 +0900, “Curt Hibbs” curt@hibbs.com ha scritto::