# \[ANN\] Arcadia ruby ide 0.8.1

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arcadia-ruby-ide-0-8-1/186667>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 10, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arcadia-ruby-ide-0-8-1/186667 "2010-04-10T23:59:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guerra)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arcadia-ruby-ide-0-8-1/186667/1 "2010-04-10T23:59:15Z")

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Arcadia is a Light Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Ruby  
language  
written in Ruby using the classic tcl/tk GUI toolkit.

Some of Arcadia ruby ide project features include:

- Editor with source browsing, syntax highlighting, code completion
- Debugging support
- Working on any platform where ruby and tcl-tk work.
- Highly extensibility architecture.

== In this release 0.8.1

[Improvements]  
commons:

- bug-fixing
- hide splash on gems wizard
- added keybinding configurazion support
- added new Edit menu items : ‘Redo’,‘Select all’,‘Invert  
selection’,‘Uppercase’, ‘Lowercase’

editor:

- added dynamic resizing of line numbers frame

\*\*\* I need help and support on this project ! \*\*\*

Regards  
Antonio

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**Author:** ![guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guerra)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arcadia-ruby-ide-0-8-1/186667/2 "2010-04-11T04:54:59Z")

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On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Antonio G.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> \*\*\* I need help and support on this project ! \*\*\*

what king of help  
thanks for arcadia and best regards -botp

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**Author:** ![guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guerra)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arcadia-ruby-ide-0-8-1/186667/3 "2010-04-11T04:56:09Z")

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sorry…

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**Author:** ![guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guerra)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arcadia-ruby-ide-0-8-1/186667/4 "2010-04-11T17:16:01Z")

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botp wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Antonio G.  
> [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > \*\*\* I need help and support on this project ! \*\*\*
> 
> what king of help  
> thanks for arcadia and best regards -botp

- A first help is do feedback, I have no idea on who use arcadia and if  
it can be usefull to someone.
- Then help in development

Thanks  
Antonio

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**Author:** ![guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guerra)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arcadia-ruby-ide-0-8-1/186667/5 "2010-04-11T22:18:03Z")

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On Apr 10, 5:59 pm, Antonio G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Arcadia is a Light Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Ruby  
> language  
> written in Ruby using the classic tcl/tk GUI toolkit.

A link to the project would be helpful.

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**Author:** ![guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guerra)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arcadia-ruby-ide-0-8-1/186667/6 "2010-04-12T03:30:00Z")

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On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Antonio G.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> - A first help is do feedback, I have no idea on who use arcadia and if  
> it can be usefull to someone.
> - Then help in development

one of the best things i like about tk/tcl is that the ruby-tk lib is  
actively supported by the very knowledgeable NaHi… no question  
regarding rubytk is left unanswered here on this list because of  
nahi…

and if you’re gem would be robust/flexible enough to run on any  
platforms, then it would be easy incorporating it on rubylib as a  
standard gui perhaps… i think it would be nice if arcadia has hooks  
on activerecord so that creating db-related forms and templates would  
be natural…

best regards -botp

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**Author:** ![guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guerra)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arcadia-ruby-ide-0-8-1/186667/7 "2010-04-12T03:46:58Z")

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On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:16 PM, Antonio G.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> - A first help is do feedback,

i like the way it tries to auto-install ruby-debug19… unfortunately  
it fails on windows since it tries to compile it … we do not do  
low-level compile-link on windows here…

best regards -botp

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**Author:** ![guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@guerra](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/guerra)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-arcadia-ruby-ide-0-8-1/186667/8 "2010-04-11T23:37:26Z")

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Thomas S. wrote:

> On Apr 10, 5:59ï¿½pm, Antonio G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > Arcadia is a Light Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Ruby  
> > language  
> > written in Ruby using the classic tcl/tk GUI toolkit.
> 
> A link to the project would be helpful.

Right

[http://arcadia.rubyforge.org](http://arcadia.rubyforge.org)

Thanks  
Antonio
