Arcadia Ruby Ide

About Arcadia

Arcadia is a Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Ruby language written in Ruby using the classic tcl/tk GUI toolkit.

Some of Arcadia ruby ide project features include:

Editor with source browsing, syntax highlighting, code completion
Debug support
Contextual ruby documentation
Work on any platform where ruby and tcl-tk work.
Highly extensibility architecture.
Support for RAD gui building

Screenshots (preview)

(a) splash window

(b) ide

How to install

There are two way:

1) exec as root on command line "gem install arcadia"
2) untar (on unix) tar -xzf arcadia-<version>.tar.gz
or unzip (on windows) arcadia-<version>.zip

How to run

exec on command line "ruby arcadia"

How to debug a ruby application

See the following debug map

(c) ide debug map

For developer: How to extend arcadia

FreeBSD 6.x
Vector linux 5.8
Windows 2000/XP
Cygwin 1.5.24-2

28 Jan 2008
'Arcadia 0.3.0 released'

25 Oct 2007
'Arcadia 0.2.0 released'

2 Jul 2007
'Arcadia 0.1.3 released'
added fast debug support

14 May 2007
'Arcadia 0.1.2.1 released'

8 May 2007
'Arcadia 0.1.2 released'

31 Mar 2007
'Arcadia 0.1.1 released'

25 Feb 2007
'Arcadia 0.1.0 released - first public release'

25 Nov 2006
'Welcome!, Arcadia web site is born'