= RIDE
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RIDE is a development environment for Robot Framework test cases.

=== Instant Communication ===

Join our **#ride** channel in Robot Framework Slack: https://robotframework.slack.com
(signup page: https://robotframework-slack-invite.herokuapp.com/)

=== "Support" sites ===

We have a RIDE section topic in https://forum.robotframework.org/c/tools/ride/21[Tools>RIDE].

You can use the tag *robotframework-ide* to search and ask on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/robotframework-ide[StackOverflow].

== **Welcome to the development version of RIDE - next release will be version 2.0**

If you are looking for the latest released version, you can get the source code from **https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/releases[releases]** or from branch **https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/tree/release/1.7.4.2[release/1.7.4.2]**
See the https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/blob/master/doc/releasenotes/ride-1.7.4.2.rst[release notes] for latest release version 1.7.4.2.

**Version 1.7.4.2 was the last release supporting Python 2.7**


**Attention, this new version will break old style `:FOR`, and you have to change to `FOR/END` blocks.**

**Attention, some problems have been detected when using wxPython 4.1.1, namely a crash when detaching File Explorer and Project panes.
This is not happening with wxPython 4.2.0.**

**The pre-release and current development, supports Python 3.8 (since February 2020).**

**Attention:**

**It is better to use Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 or 3.9 and now 3.10.**

**To use Python 3.9, you should have wxPython 4.1.1, and install from `master` (since April 2021).**

**Current development version since 2.0b2.dev19 (20 August 2022) supports Python 3.10 with wxPython 4.2.0.**

**24-jun-2022 A preliminary experiment was done on Fedora 36, Python 3.10.5 and wxPython 4.0.7**

Install current development version (**2.0rc1**) with:
[source, shell]
pip install -U https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/archive/master.zip

(31 January 2023) To update the current development version, 2.0rc1 you will have to force it because the number is the same as the previous:
[source, shell] 
pip install -U --no-cache-dir --force https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/archive/master.zip

(3.6 < python < 3.11) Install current Beta version (2.0b3) with:
[source, shell]
pip install -U --pre robotframework-ride

**See the https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/wiki/F%2eA%2eQ%2e[FAQ] at https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/wiki[Wiki]**



== Unit testing statuses:

// Linux (py36, py37, py38, py39): image:https://app.travis-ci.com/HelioGuilherme66/RIDE.svg?branch=master[Unit Tests, link=https://app.travis-ci.com/github/HelioGuilherme66/RIDE]

Windows (Python 3.10): image:https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/github/HelioGuilherme66/RIDE?branch=master&svg=true[Unit Tests, link=https://ci.appveyor.com/project/HelioGuilherme66/ride]

Quality Gate Status: image:https://sonarcloud.io/api/project_badges/measure?project=HelioGuilherme66_RIDE&metric=alert_status[SonarCloud, link=https://sonarcloud.io/summary/new_code?id=HelioGuilherme66_RIDE]

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* https://pypi.python.org/pypi/robotframework-ride[Downloads at PyPi]
* Statistics at https://pypistats.org/packages/robotframework-ride[PyPi Stats] and https://libraries.io/pypi/robotframework-ride[Libraries.io]
* Usage instructions and some tips and tricks can be found from the https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/wiki[Wiki]
* Bug report/enhancement request? Use the https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/issues[issue tracker]
* Any questions? Do not hesitate to use the https://groups.google.com/group/robotframework-users/[mailing list], or https://forum.robotframework.org/c/tools/ride/21[Robot Framework Forum->Tools>RIDE], or https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/robotframework-ide[StackOverflow].
* Development information is in https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/blob/master/BUILD.rest[BUILD] file
