daveheitzman / redcar

A cross-platform programmer's editor written in Ruby. Official repo: https://github.com/redcar/redcar/

{Redcar}

http://redcareditor.com/

DESCRIPTION

A Ruby text editor.

• written in Ruby from the ground up
• runs on JRuby (a fast, compatible Ruby implementation)
• is cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)
• highly extensible

Some Redcar features:

• supports Textmate themes and snippets
• split screen mode
• syntax checking for many languages
• built in REPLs for Ruby, Groovy, Clojure and Mirah.

Some (current) limitations:

• Only supports UTF-8 file encodings (and therefore ASCII)

INSTALLATION

see User Guide: Installation

USAGE

Run

$ redcar --help

To see full usage details.

PROBLEMS?

• Irc at #redcar on irc.freenode.net
• Mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/redcar-editor

TESTS

NB. Redcar features are known to work with Cucumber 0.9.2, and known NOT to work with Cucumber < 0.9

To run the tests you need JRuby installed. You also need rspec and cucumber installed as JRuby gems. See jruby.org for this, or install with rvm.

To install the necessary gems:

$ jruby -S bundle install

To run all specs and all features:

$ jruby -S rake

Specs

On OSX:

$ jruby -J-XstartOnFirstThread -S spec plugins/#{plugin_name}/spec/

On Linux/Windows:

$ jruby -S spec plugins/#{plugin_name}/spec/

To just run all specs:

$ rake specs

Features

On OSX:

$ jruby -J-XstartOnFirstThread bin/cucumber --exclude ".*fixtures.*" plugins/#{plugin_name}/features

On Linux/Windows:

$ jruby bin/cucumber --exclude ".*fixtures.*" plugins/#{plugin_name}/features/

To just run all features:

$ rake cucumber

LICENSE

Redcar is copyright 2007-2011 Daniel Lucraft and contributors. It is licensed under the GPLv2. See the included LICENSE file for details.