From: Laurent Julliard <Laurent.Julliard@...>
Date: 2004-11-25T03:29:12+09:00
Subject: Re: FreeRide experience? (especially on MacOS X)

Glenn Parker wrote:
> Jamie Orchard-Hays wrote:
> 
>> I'm curious about users' experiences with FreeRide, especially on 
>> MacOS X.
> 
> 
> I played with it for a couple of days (on WinXP).  I'm afraid that, as a 
> neophyte Ruby coder, I found it frustrating.  My utterly naive Ruby 
> syntax errors caused it to crash so frequently that I gave up on it and 
> went back to XEmacs.  My feeling is it's not quite ready for prime-time.
> 

There happen to be a bug in 0.8.0 that caused FR to crash each time 
you ran a script with a syntax error in it. This has been fixed and 
will be 0.9.0 pretty soon.


> Part of this may have resulted from deeper bugs in the Ruby interpreter, 
>  or with irb, since I've experienced a few unforgiving crashes using 
> irb, as well.  This was all using ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i386-mswin32].
> 
> A follow-on question:
> 
> Does the current source tree for Ruby include test cases with "bad" 
> code?  The idea would be to ensure that Ruby gracefully handles 
> syntactic and semantic errors.
> 

No I think the bug was really in FreeRIDE.

Laurent