From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-03-01T09:04:12+09:00
Subject: Re: FreeRIDE project - Call for help

Ben Giddings wrote:
> Laurent Julliard wrote:
> 
>> - Testing, testing, testing...: testers are
>> badly needed. By testers I mean people that use FreeRIDE but are also
>> willing to identify the root cause of a bug and fix it. I use FreeRIDE
>> myself for FreeRIDE development but I tend to always do the same
>> operations which is not o good way of testing.
> 
> 
> Ok, I use Emacs with ruby-mode.  I've looked at FreeRIDE before, but I'm 
> not sure what there is there that would make me want to use it instead 
> of Emacs.
> 
> You might get more people to help out with testing if you could provide 
> some compelling reasons why they should use FreeRIDE.  Even if those 
> features are, as yet, over the horizon.  If I knew I could have a Ruby 
> editor with all the keystrokes of Emacs, but customizable in Ruby 
> instead of lisp, I'd jump in a second... but it doesn't look like that's 
> what FreeRIDE is, or what it aims to be.
> 
> So, what's your sales pitch?  :)

Offhand, integrated dubugging. But you probably have something working in
emacs as well.

Frankly, I'd be interested in an emacs mode even though I don't use emacs.
And I have done some work along the lines of programming Scintilla with a
nice Ruby API. See my 2003 RubyConf presentation (somewhat out of date wrt
refactoring, as we now have rrb, I guess).

   http://hypermetrics.com/rubyhacker/ff/slide01.html  (esp. slides 6 and 8)

Hmm, it's way past time to polish that code and release it.

I'll add it to my todo list.  ;)


Hal