From: Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...>
Date: 2006-05-08T12:37:24+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby ide?

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On 5/7/06, John Gabriele <jmg3000@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/7/06, Andrew Buchan <bfsog@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > What do you lot code ruby into?
> >
> > Anything like and of bloodshed's or visual studio?
> >
>
> I've just started having a look at FreeRIDE, and took a little extra
> time to install it from scratch. If anyone's interested, I put my
> instructions up here: http://www.simisen.com/jmg/freeride.html . Note:
> the FreeRIDE folks have an installer, which they recommend, and which
> does most of that work for you.
>
> I've got pretty high hopes for FreeRIDE: it's code is neat, seems
> modular, and is fairly well-documented. It's licensed under the same
> terms as Ruby itself too.
>
> FreeRide has a unique internal architecture that uses something call the
databus to keep all of the components loosely coupled. You can read about
the databus here:

  http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Databus

In FreeRIDE everything is a plugin (except the code responsible for loading
plugins). Even the GUI frontend is a plugin that uses FXRuby to render the
UI. There are plans to someday write a a wxRuby GUI plugin.

Curt

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