{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 REPL for Ruby, plugins for Groovy, Clojure and Mirah.

Some (current) limitations:

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

Installation

$ gem install redcar

for more details, see User Guide: Installation

Note: On OS X, you must have Xcode and Xcode Command Line Tools (available view Xcode > Preferences > Downloads) installed.

Usage

Run

$ redcar --help

To see full usage details.

Experimental Installers

You must have Java installed. On Ubuntu, you can install openjdk-7-jre if you do not already have Java.

OS X

unzip, then double click Redcar.app
Debian

install with sudo dpkg -i redcar_xx_all.deb
Windows

unzip, then run redcar.exe

Installing From Source

git clone git://github.com/redcar/redcar.git
cd redcar
rake init
ruby bin/redcar

Problems?

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

License

Redcar is copyright 2007-2012 Daniel Lucraft and contributors. It is licensed under the GPLv2. See the included LICENSE file for details.