From: Philip Mateescu <philip@...>
Date: 2002-04-30T04:02:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Practical Ruby 0.1.0

Would you please care to announce it also on the scintilla mailing list.

Thank you,
philip


----- Original Message -----
From: "Baptiste Lepilleur" <gaiacrtn@free.fr>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, 28 April, 2002 10:46 PM
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Practical Ruby 0.1.0


>     Hi all,
>
>     I'm glad to announce the first release of Practical Ruby
> (http://gaiacrtn.free.fr/), an IDE for Ruby on the Windows platform. It is
a
> 'proof of concept' release. I got that crazy idea last Monday and finally
> implemented enough to know that it can be done:
>
>     Practical Ruby aims to be a fast evolving IDE for Ruby development. To
> provide fast evolution, most of Practical Ruby is (will be) itself written
> in Ruby.
>
>     The source editor is build around Scintilla Edit Control
> (http://www.scintilla.org/), a very flexible source edit control. While
the
> GUI core is written using MFC, most of the tasks are delegated to Ruby
> scripts. The Scintilla Edit Control has been made accessible from Ruby,
with
> an interface making the control much easier to use than in C++. Commands
> (menu entry selection, toolbar button and keyboard shortcut) processing is
> also delegated to Ruby.
>
>     Feedback are welcome! I would really like somebody to propose a
> architecture for the command pattern in MainFrame.rb using ruby features
(I
> started learning ruby less than a week ago, I'm sure there is a better way
> of implementing that with ruby's features).
>
>     Just to give you an idea why ruby help faster development, I'll let a
> bit of code talks for itself. Here is the code that handle the 'smart
> indent' (basic at the current time):
>
>
> class EditControl < ScintillaBridge
>     def eventCharAdded( ch )
>         smartIndent() if ch == "\r"  ||  ch == "\n"
>     end
>
>     def smartIndent()
>          if currentLineNumber() > 0  &&  lineLength( currentLineNumber() )
> <= 2      # 2 <= '\r\n'
>             previousLine = getLine( currentLineNumber() -1 )
>            indent = /^\s*/.match( previousLine )[0]
>            replaceSel( indent )
>         end
>     end
> end
>
> Enjoy,
> Baptiste Lepilleur.
>
> ---
> Baptiste Lepilleur <gaiacrtn@free.fr>
> http://gaiacrtn.free.fr/
>