Ruby In Steel Developer Edition Changelog

Ruby in Steel 1.2

Ruby In Steel DE 01.02.0435
21st April, 2008

Visual Rails Workbench
 Full page editing of complete web pages (composites of Rails layouts/views/partials)
 Drag and Drop design - add controls from a toolbox
 Set properties using the Property panel
 Resize and move controls using mouse or keyboard
 Split view code/form editing
 Toggle ERb/RHTML editing between HTML editor and Rails (Ruby-aware) editor
 Round-tripping between ‘web format’ HTML and ‘Rails format’ ERb/RHTML
 Edit code as ERb/RHTML or as HTML
 Document Navigator navigates document structure (HTML)/or methods (ERB/Ruby)
 Quick navigation between controller and view
 Import/Export to other web page design tools such as Dreamweaver
 Save/restore named ‘versions’ of page designs to/from an archive of work in progress
 Auto-backup of changes to templates
 Support for Rails 1 and Rails 2

Enhanced ‘Cylon’ Debugger
 Tracepoints
 Conditional breakpoints
 Break on hitcount
 Run macro on break
 Break on exception
 Autos window user-configuration
 Dynamic debugging (evaluate code and change variable values on the fly)

Also...
 JRuby Support (fast JRuby debugger - ‘JCylon’)
 IronRuby support (alpha) including form designer

Ruby In Steel 1.1.5

Ruby In Steel DE 01.01.0375
20th December, 2007
 Faster loading and synchronization of large projects (> 2,000 files)

Ruby In Steel DE 01.01.0370
10th December, 2007
 Support for Visual Studio 2008 (or VS 2005)
 Multiple small bug fixes and improvements

Ruby In Steel DE 01.01.0344
29th October, 2007
 Now supports Rails templates with the .erb extension.
 The Immediate window can be used when stopped at a breakpoint.
 Console/Toolwindow positions are persisted.
 Ruby Console non-writability when debugging is fixed.
 Font cache is cleared on re-installing (fixes incorrect coloring).
 Bracket matching bug (with nested curly bracket blocks/hashes) fixed

Ruby In Steel DE 01.01.0341
22nd October, 2007
 Greatly improved Rails IntelliSense
 Tabbed (Common/All) Code Completion Lists
 Optionally omit ancestor classes from code completion
 Optionally provide IntelliSense while debugging
 Quick navigate between Controller/View
 Docked Rails Console
 Docked IRB Console
 Docked Script Console
 Docked context-sensitive RDOC window
 ERb (RHTML) Snippets
 Collapsible Regions
 ‘Virtual Space’ editing support
 Click-to-open ‘required’ files
 Choose Debug/Run Ruby targets (interpreters/compilers)
 Ruby Connector .NET component
 Optional keyword...end completion
 Optionally set files to read-only when debugging
 Optional auto-format code after ‘end’
 Debug into embedded Ruby (RHTML)
 Beta edition for VS2008 released

Ruby In Steel 1.1

Ruby In Steel DE 0.1.01.0254
6th June, 2007
 New dockable Generate toolwindow
 New dockable Rake toolwindow
 Expanded manual (pdf)
 Rewritten integrated help
 F5 Debugs Rails applications
The following bugs are now fixed in this release
 Virtual Space does not work
 Error (and warning) list not cleared when project is closed
 Drag/Drop in Solution Explorer does not work correctly
 Can’t select item in completion list using mouse
 private methods of Kernel shown in completion lists
 cursor moves to end of line under some circumstances
 extend.self does not work as expected
 Call stack seems to be "one out"
 Add New Item needs an ’Add As Link’ option
 Ruby files sometimes do not load correctly in C# projects
 Hover over x(a) in the debugger tries to evaluate x with the incorrect number of arguments
 Uninitialized class variables cause Class Variables not to be displayed in Autos window
 Ruby Explorer displays incorrect object tree
 Debug tooltips over methods show "wrong number of arguments" error message
 Debugger does not work under x64 o/s
 Step Into/Step Out in debugger does not always work correctly
 Hover when debugging does not display tooltip
 IntelliSense not functioning when debugger is active
 Classes missing in completion lists
 Class variables missing from Autos window
 Cylon crashes if too many threads are created
 Ruby files not coloured as Ruby when in another language project (e.g. C#)
 Add New Ruby Project to existing solution (e.g. C#) not working
 Autos (instance vars) not shown for Rails
 Username is missing in database.yml file
 The Conversion Assistant adds \config and \script folders
 Format Document omits last line
 New Ruby Console - gets() reads whole line not just input
 Two formatting bugs: Lines with =end on them get indented; Lines with =end on them get indented
 Local vars not in completion list
 Numeric mixins don’t give IntelliSense with numbers
 Synchronise button shows up in Solution Explorer for C++ projects
 Locals Windows crashes Cylon
 Vars in Watch and Locals window have different values when using call stack (should work like C#)
 Hover drilldown in console sometimes produces ’warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version’
 Automatic formatting messes up when program contains a complete if/then/else on one line
 Deleted folders come back again on project reload (but they are deleted on disk)
 Mark and format not working under some circumstances
 Debuggers do not stop at breakpoint which is set on first line
 Paste does not SmartIndent paste buffer
 Ctrl-1 and Ctrl-2 still active in non-Ruby projects (e.g. C#)
 Comment block highlight is not always correct
 Bracket highlighting does not occur when the cursor is positioned by the mouse

Ruby In Steel 1.0

Ruby In Steel DE 0.1.00.0222
30th March, 2007

 Debugger handles unlimited threads
 Drill down (watched variables etc.) works better
 Call stack improved
 Ability to step into dynamic code (evaluate strings as code) in debugger
 Debugger works in x64 O/S
 Hover/drill-down data tips in code editor
 Ruby code colouring works in a mixed language projects (e.g. a Ruby files in a C# project)
 Project import problem (time-out) fixed
 Solution Explorer handles file-drag/drop/cut/paste etc.
 Much faster IntelliSense
Plus: Numerous minor improvements to debugging, IntelliSense, Solutions/Project management and editing.

Ruby In Steel DE 0.1.00.0202
22nd February, 2007

 Cylon debugger: now stable for multi-threaded applications. WEBrick and Mongrel now supported.
 IntelliSense now uses Ruby Library Paths for the Project Properties page to find ‘require’ files. So if, for example, you add C:\Program Files\Ruby\lib to the Ruby Library Paths, then the line require "pp" will resolve the pp.rb file.
 Several minor IntelliSense improvements and fixes have been made.
 IntelliSense class assignment now works.
 IntelliSense accessors now work better
 Bracket matching on do/end has been fixed.
 Vista Registry virtualisation problem resolved
 Debugger watch/locals window now displays complex Ruby data structures correctly
 Several fixes to Ruby parsing and colorization have been made.
 Ruby console can now be colored (for example, green lettering on a black background.

Ruby In Steel DE 0.1.00.0188
3rd February, 2007

 Update for Windows Vista support.

Ruby In Steel DE 0.1.00.0181
29th January, 2007

 First release of Ruby In Steel Developer.