Does Ruckus still work?

Questions & Answers
1

When I run the sample first Rucku program as instructed in 2 Getting Your Ruckus On

#lang ruckus
 
(sphere 200)

it fails. It writes out a lot of C code on my terminal, then complains

generate-compile-and-link: error compiling: 0:1(1): error: syntax error, unexpected end of file

  context...:
   /home/hendrik/.racket/8.1/pkgs/ruckus/viz/viewer.rkt:55:8
   /usr/local/racket/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt:148:2: call-with-break-parameterization
   /usr/local/racket/collects/ffi/unsafe/atomic.rkt:73:13
   /usr/local/racket/share/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wx/common/canvas-mixin.rkt:144:4: do-on-paint method in canvas-mixin
   /usr/local/racket/share/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wx/common/queue.rkt:435:6
   /usr/local/racket/share/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wx/common/queue.rkt:486:32
   /usr/local/racket/share/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wx/common/queue.rkt:634:3
hendrik@midwinter:~/dv/fun/rackettown/ruckus
2

It turns out to have been a version skew problem. Ruckus works fine with an up-to-date Racket.

-- hendrik