Information On Ruby In Steel?
Ruby In Steel is the name of a Ruby programming environment for Visual Studio. It is developed by SapphireSteel Software.
The Developer Edition of Ruby In Steel is aimed at professional Ruby and Rails programmers. It features the blazingly fast ’Cylon’ debugger and a unique ’intelligent type inference’ engine to provide true IntelliSense even for a language as dynamic as Ruby.
Ruby In Steel comes in two editions...
The Text Edition includes Ruby and RHTML (Rails template) editing with syntax color coding, code collapsing, Ruby debugging, an integrated run-and-evaluate console, Ruby and Ruby In Rails project management. It comes complete with its own copy of Visual Studio at no extra cost.
The Developer Edition includes all of the above plus tooltip documentation, enhanced code navigation, auto-expand snippets, smart editing, analytical IntelliSense and the optimized, fully integrated ’Cylon’ debugger.
Press Coverage
"Ruby In Steel is particularly interesting to developers coming over from the Microsoft world as Visual Studio is a familiar environment to them. That’ll likely ease the transition."
InfoWorld David Heinemeier Hansson
"Ruby in Steel’s superior implementation of code completion, navigation and dialogs for Rails, Gems and Rake combine with Visual Studio’s project-oriented model to create a compelling system for larger-scale Ruby development, especially Rails-based."
SD Times (Larry O’Brien)
"Review: Ruby Reaches Big Leagues With Two IDEs"
"The asking price will seem cheap for the combination of the fast debugging and the great IntelliSense support."
InfoWorld (Martin Heller)
"Review: Ruby in Steel proves a speedy debugger"
"SapphireSteel Software released version 1.0 of its Visual Studio 2005 extension, Ruby in Steel Developer. The company claims it’s the first Ruby IDE addressing two current problems in the Ruby ecosystem: the lack of support for Microsoft technologies and the need for professional development tools."
Redmond Developer News (Kathleen Richards)
"Ruby Rising"
"We were six months into the project before we even realised we had a problem... After all, how hard can it be to program some lists of names that drop down when someone types a dot? The answer, as we were soon to discover was: very, very hard… The project in question is called Ruby In Steel..."
The Register
’Making Sense of Ruby (An IntelliSense Cure for Method Madness?)’ by Huw Collingbourne
" ’I think it’s going to help in the acceptance of Ruby on Rails and the Ruby programming language in the enterprise world,’ (said Armando Flores, an independent software developer working in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, ‘It’s easier to adopt a new technology when you do it in a familiar environment.’ "
InfoWorld
“Ruby Programmers To Get Visual Basic Link”
