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 H.
Laurent J.
Jonathan M.