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October 15

Unexpectedly, the development version of Mondrian gets a debugger! Weird.

August 23

Added a developers page and started releasing very unstable development versions that should be used only for entertainment.

August 7

Mondrian beta8 has been released, fixing a few annoying bugs. Here's the usual forum post.

March 30

There is a tentative new beta which should work under FXRuby 1.2. Read more here!

August 14

By not being updated for 3 months, Mondrian reveals itself to be an open source program after all! Some notes on the current state of Mondrian.

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Note: Mondrian 1.0 beta8 requires FXRuby 1.2.4 or FXRuby 1.2.6! Other versions don't work yet. Sorry for the inconvenience. I suck.

More notes: If Mondrian won't start, try running it with 'ruby -rubygems Mondrian.rbw', or add a RUBYOPT environment variable with the value 'rubygems'. The 'rubyw' command seems to have problems in the latest one-click installer, so try 'ruby' instead.

Downloading Mondrian

The latest stable release of Mondrian is 1.0 beta8 (for older or development versions, go here).

Windows users, download MondrianBeta_install.exe.

Linux and Mac users, download mondrian-v1.0beta8.tar.gz.

Before Installing!

Windows

If you haven't already, you will need to download the fantastic single-click Ruby installer. This will install all the required libraries as well as Ruby itself. You can get the file from rubyforge here. Just click on the latest .exe link to download.

Once the Ruby installation is finished, you're ready to run the Mondrian installer!

Linux

You need a few libraries if you don't have them already. The best way to get them is probably to check your distribution's package maintainer and see if you can install them that way. If not, you'll have to compile and install them manually, or hopefully use a provided package for your distribution. We don't have much documentation at this point, so hopefully you either know what you're doing or can rely on the documentation on the provider's site.

Ruby: Homepage.

The FOX GUI Toolkit: Homepage. (If you get errors complaining about mesa or opengl, run the command 'configure --with-opengl=no' first.)

FXScintilla: Homepage.

FXRuby: Homepage (beta7 and newer require FXRuby 1.2; beta6 and older require FXRuby 1.0). You can install FXRuby easily with 'gem install fxruby'.

And, finally, you can install Mondrian by running the command 'tar xzvf mondrian-v1.0beta8.tar.gz', going to the new mondrian-v1.0beta8 directory and typing 'ruby Mondrian.rbw', assuming Ruby is in the path. If you want to create a shortcut from your Window Manager, you will need to have it change to Mondrian's directory first - either through a provided field, or by having it execute the command 'ruby -C/somewhere/mondrian-v1.0beta8 Mondrian.rbw'.

Mac!

Al Chou has gotten Mondrian working on OS X 10.3 and was kind enough to provide some information. Click here to read it, slightly edited for HTML-ese. Mondrian must run using an X11 server on OS X.

A standalone Mondrian executable

Mark Felt has gotten Mondrian running with RubyScript2Exe, which creates a single file containing everything needed to run Mondrian from scratch. Click here to read his instructions.

Whew.