Ruby In Steel Personal Edition (PE) 2008 provides all the tools needed to develop and maintain Ruby or Rails projects including syntax sensitive customizable code coloring and code folding, numerous coding tools such as auto-indenting, code reformatting, bracket and keyword matching and integrated consoles to allow users to interact with the Ruby interpreter in docked or floating windows. Ruby In Steel PE 2008 even includes a free copy of Visual Studio 2008 for Ruby!
Ruby In Steel PE 2008 is available for personal or commercial development. It does not require registration and it does not time out. It comes with an ‘All-in-One’ installer to allow users to install all the software required including: Visual Studio 2008 (‘Shell edition’), Ruby, Rails, MySQL and Ruby In Steel. Alternatively, users who already own a commercial edition of Visual Studio 2008 may install Ruby In Steel into that.
The ‘All-in-one’ installer
Ruby In Steel PE 2008 provides numerous features for Ruby and Rails developers such as:
Code Coloring (Ruby)
Code Coloring (Erb/RHTML)
Code Folding (Ruby)
Code Folding (Erb/RHTML)
Color schemes/customization
Bracket matching (move cursor)
Bracket highlighting
Keyword..end matching (move cursor)
Block comment/uncomment
Multi-level undo/redo
Tabbed (multi-file) editing
Split-window editing
Auto Indent/outdent
Smart Indenting
Auto end-completion (e.g. auto add ‘end’ after ‘def’)
Code Reformatting
Project Management in the Solution Explorer
Open command prompt in selected directory
Dockable IRB Console
Run Ruby in integrated interactive console
Comprehensive PDF User Guide/Manual
Integrated Help
All-in-one Installer
Supports Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.8.7, Rails 1, Rails 2.1
DOWNLOAD RUBY IN STEEL PE 2008 (175Mb)
IMPORTANT: Be Sure To Read The Documentation!
The following documents are all included in the zip file:
ReadMe_Personal_Edition.html
Installation Intructions.pdf
Ruby In Steel Manual 1_1_5.pdf
The zip archive also contains a free eBook (PDF) Ruby tutorial, The Little Book Of Ruby, plus all the source code ready to load as a single project into Ruby In Steel. The source code is contained in littlebookofruby2_source.zip.
Ruby In Steel PE 2008 includes provides project management in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer (top right), has interactive docked Ruby and IRB consoles (screen bottom) and includes a powerful Ruby editor with code coloring, code folding, auto-formatting, bracket-matching, keyword-end matching, smart indenting, block commenting and much more...
The editor also supports Rails template files (.ERb or .rhtml). You can import existing Ruby or Rails projects using the Import Wizard
The editor is highly customizable. You can create your own named color schemes or use one of the ready-to-go color schemes supplied with the software
Ruby In Steel PE 2008 is a subset of our entry-level commercial IDE, Ruby In Steel Text Edition. It does not include the integrated debugger supplied with the Text Edition, nor does it come with a library of Ruby auto-expanding code snippets. Please note that no technical support is offered for Ruby In Steel PE 2008.
For information on our commercial IDEs, please refer to the Ruby In Steel Developer Overview, Ruby In Steel Text Edition Overview, The Feature List and The Download Page (where you can download free 60-day trials of Ruby In Steel Text and Developer editions).
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