Instant

An experiment on real time visualize development tool, inspired by Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk and @ermau C# Implementation.

Run a demo

You can run it live at instant-ruby.herokuapp.com.

Run locally

First clone the source code from github.com/siuying/instant.

In the app folder, run following commands:

bundle install
foreman start

then open your browser at http://127.0.0.1:5000/

Install as gem

Install the Gem:

gem install instant

Then in your program:

require 'rubygems'
require 'instant'

runner = Instant::Runner.new
runner.run "def hello(a); a = 10 + a; end; hello(20)"

Credits

• Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle - this talk is just eyes opening!
• Instant (C#) @ermau's C# implementation motivate me to create this Ruby port
• ACE - Really cool AJAX based IDE
• RubyParser and Ruby2Ruby - created by Seattle.rb, they make this app possible

Contact

@siuying