= 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 major release will be version 2.1**

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/2.0.5[release/2.0.5]**

See the https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/blob/master/doc/releasenotes/ride-2.0.5.rst[release notes] for latest release version 2.0.5.

**Version https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/tree/release/1.7.4.2[1.7.4.2] was the last release supporting Python 2.7**


**The current development version is based on 2.0.5, supports Python from 3.6 up to 3.10 (8th May 2023).**

Currently the unit tests are only tested on Python 3.10 (which is the recommended version).
Likewise, the current version of wxPython, is 4.2.0, but RIDE is known to work with 4.0.7 and 4.1.1 versions.

(3.6 < python < 3.11) Install current released version (**2.0.4**) with:
[source, shell]
pip install -U robotframework-ride
Install current development version (**2.0.4**) with:
[source, shell]
pip install -U https://github.com/robotframework/RIDE/archive/master.zip

// (3.6 < python < 3.11) Install current Beta version (2.1a1) 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