= 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/)

== **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.**

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

Install with:
[source, shell]
pip install -U https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/archive/master.zip

**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): image:https://travis-ci.com/robotframework/RIDE.svg?branch=master[Unit Tests, link=https://travis-ci.com/robotframework/RIDE]
Windows (py36, py37, py38): 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]

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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]
* Development information is in https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/blob/master/BUILD.rest[BUILD] file