Ruby Development Tools 0.8.0.PRD

Edit, test, run and debug Ruby applications.

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Ruby Development Tools (RDT) is an open source Ruby IDE for the Eclipse platform. Features supported are syntax highlighting, on the fly syntax check, graphical outline, Test::Unit view/runner, Ruby application launching, content assist, source formatter, and a Ruby debugger. The Ruby Development Tools needs a Ruby interpreter. Visit http://www.ruby-lang.org/ for more information.

Getting started

This plugin has currently does not have "Getting Started" documentation. If you are familiar with this plugin; would you be willing to draft some Getting Started documentation and post it on the forum? We will gladly add it.

Requirements and limitations

• Beta release - We have not yet fully tested this plugin. Please report a bug for any problem you encounter. We welcome your feedback (positive and negative!) in the forums, mailing lists and bug trackers.


• This plugin will run with any distribution of EasyEclipse.


• It may also work with a standard installation of Eclipse 3.1.2. We have not tested it, though.


• To use this plugin, you need this additional software:
  • Ruby installer for Windows
  • Ruby and Ruby on Rails installer for MacOS PowerPC
  • Ruby sources for Linux


• This plugin is present in the following distributions:
  • EasyEclipse for LAMP
  • EasyEclipse for Ruby On Rails

Links

• Ruby Development Tools home: Project home
• Ruby Development Tools home
• Screenshots
• Project FAQ
• Documentation
• Ruby Development Tools provides support for this programming language.

Changelog

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.0.1:

• Upgraded to Ruby Development Tools 0.8.0.PRD.

Changes in EasyEclipse 1.0.0:

• Initial release (with Ruby Development Tools 0.8.0.RC1).

Credits and License

Credits: RubyPeople, Adam Williams, Christopher Williams, Markus Barchfeld

All files of the RDT are copyright of RubyPeople. RubyPeople is not a legal entity, but consists of the following people who have contributed to the RDT. Currently these are (in alphabetical order): Markus Barchfeld (Markus.Barchfeld@gmx.de) Adam Williams (developer at thewilliams dot double-u es) Chris Williams (cwillia1@rochester.rr.com) See http://www.rubypeople.org for more information.

This plugin is licensed under the Common Public License 1.0 license.

         The Ruby Development Tools (RDT) plugin for eclipse is subject to the Common Public License (CPL) v 1.0. All files of the RDT except for the external plugins and libraries named below are copyright of RubyPeople. RubyPeople is
        not a legal entity, but consists of the following people who have contributed to the RDT. Currently these are (in
        alphabetical order): Markus Barchfeld, David Corbin, Zach Dennis, Adam Williams and Chris Williams. See
        www.rubypeople.org for more information. The RDT feature contains the following plugins and libraries from
        external providers: RegExp plugin, http://e-p-i-c.sourceforge.net JRuby, http://jruby.sourceforge.net kxml2,
        http://kxml.sourceforge.net The file org.rubypeople.rdt.launching/ruby/eclipseDebug.rb is based on the debug.rb
        file, which is part of the ruby 1.6.8 release. Because of the nature of developing this plugin, many features or
        concepts have been copied from the jdt. Therefore you will find code fragements which have been copied from the
        jdt. We did not add the IBM copyright with every code fragment of this kind. We think that this is in accordance
        with the CPL and is not an intended removal of copyright.