[Vit-core] (no subject)

[Laurent Julliard]

Mohamed,

Thanks for your interest in FreeRIDE. You are of course very welcome to
use FreeRIDE as a basis for your thesis. There are however a couple of
points that I'd like to draw your attention to before your start:

- Generally speaking the FreeRIDE code is not for beginners as it
involves a number of different techniques like a event/notification
databus, a plugin architecture, the use of the FOX toolkit as a UI,
etc... I'm not saying this to discourage you but rather to let you know
that you may want to become familiar with Ruby first with some other
simple programs.

- To be honest with you I'll have very little time to devote to support
you in the coming months due to some other imperatives at work. This
being said if you subscribe to the frerride developers mailing list and
ask questions there will always be someone to givbe you a hand.

Hope this helps.

Laurent

You sent this to me (Curt Hibbs) instead of Laurent, so I forwarded it
to him.
Curt
Dear Mr. Lauren Julliard,
We a group of students who study computer science at the American
University in Cairo and we are starting our thesis. We are
considering adding Ruby on Rails and more features that can be added
to freeRide such as Dragg and Dropp icons as our thesis, and we
would like to get your help and your support . The problem is that
Ruby is not very familiar as a programming language here in our
university and in Egypt, so we think that your support will help us
a lot in accomplishing this project especially that freeRide is
written using Ruby.
Thank you for your conern
Mohamed A. Atta
*Date* Sun, 4 Mar 2007 21:41:37 -0600
*Subject* Re: [Vit-core] (no subject)

We are a group of Students at the American University in

Cairo, and

we decided to do our thesis as an IDE for RUBY on Rails. We

will be

glad to get your support and your help to accomplish this

project.
You have contacted the team that maintains the ruby-lang.org
<http://ruby-lang.org/> web
site. I'm not sure what support/help we could provide, beyond
wishing you the best of luck (which we definitely do).
You might want to consider doing something with FreeRIDE, the only
open source IDE that is actually written in Ruby. It currently
supports Ruby programming in general, but does not contain specific
support for Rails. If you were to add Ruby on Rails support to
FreeRIDE as part of your thesis I'm sure that would be much
appreciated and you would receive much support from the FreeRIDE
development team.
http://freeride.rubyforge.org/
and you can read about its unique internal architecture (which
http://freeride.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?DevDoc
I copied Laurent Juliard (the current head of the FreeRIDE project)
in case you are interested in persuing this. If so, please email
Laurent directly.
Good luck!
Curt