From: "Rob ." <rob.02004@...>
Date: 2005-04-13T23:04:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FreeRide 0.9.4 - The Free Ruby IDE

Under your list of features you mention "Source navigation by module,
class, method, etc". I was wondering what feature on RIDE does this
description refer to - the Source View panel perhaps?

I'm very impressed by the Ruby Documentation plugin. Great work! I
might cross-pollinate ideas to the jEdit Ruby Editor Plugin.  ;-)
Currently v0.5 of the plugin supports a free-text RI search, with a
type-ahead list appearing if the search-term matches more than one
method. Adding the type ahead list of all available documentation
similiar to RIDE would be a nice touch. I'll probably end up writing
code to parse those ri YAML files. Lothar has suggested this before as
a solution for creating a cache of non-Ruby source code classes.

Cheers,
Rob
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Ruby Editor Plugin for jEdit - another Free Ruby IDE
http://www.jedit.org/ruby/
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On 4/11/05, Laurent Julliard <laurent@moldus.org> wrote:
> Version 0.9.4 of FreeRIDE has been released and is available for download!
> 
> For details and downloads, go to:
> 
>      http://freeride.rubyforge.org/
> 
> 0.9.4 introduces two major new features that will make you more
> productive when you write Ruby code:
> 
> - one is the Ruby Documentation plugin which allows you get instant
> help on a class or method name whenever yoy hit the F1 button when
> writing code (Beware it's terribly addicting...). For this to work
> properly, the Linux and the Windows installer now comes with the full
> Ruby Documentation generated (ri format)
> 
> - second is the "code template" plugin. While typing code press CTRL-J
> and you'll see a list of code templates that you can insert by
> selecting their short name. These templates cannot be customized for
> now but it will come... However we believe there is already a
> reasonable list of code templates that you can choose from in 0.9.4
> 
> 0.9.4 also comes with a number of bug fixes. See the ChangeLog file
> for details. Also note that the experimental refactoring plugin has
> been deactivated as this was not working very well and the RRB appears
> to be no longer maintained.
> 
> Have fun! And, as always, feedback and contributions are welcome.
> 
> NOTE: If you experience troubles (e.g. crashes) at startup time,
> delete your FreeRIDE configuration directory in $HOME/.freeride for
> Linux users or %USERPROFILE%\freeride on Windows to restart from a
> fresh setting.
> 
> === 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.
> 
> Laurent Julliard
> Curt Hibbs
> 
> --
> Laurent JULLIARD
> http://www.moldus.org/~laurent