Ruby In Steel Road Map

The Path to ‘Yellow Fire’ (Ruby In Steel Developer 1.5)

1.01
 Vista Support
 More IntelliSense...

1.1 (June 2007)
 Fixes to problems reported by users and various small changes
 Thread-safe debugger
 Expanded documentation
 Dockable Rake window
 Dockable Generate window

1.1.5 (4th quarter 2007) Rails Developer
 RHTML snippets
 Dockable RDOC window
 Dockable IRB console
 Dockable Rails console
 Dockable Script console
 Selectable Ruby (interpreter/compiler) targets
 Enhanced RHTML editor
 View/Controller quick-jump
 Ruby Connector (lets .NET apps communicate with Ruby)
 Major improvements to Rails IntelliSense

1.2 (1st quarter 2008) Visual Rails Developer
 Visual Web Page Designer for Rails
 Rails Navigation Explorer

1.3 (September, 2008)
 IntelliSense Librarian
 Rails Database IntelliSense
 Configuration-Dependent Property Pages

1.4 (January, 2009)
 TODO comments in Task List
 User Comments in Task List

1.5 (2010)
 Updates/additions including updated JRuby support

Here is our original Road Map, culminating in version 1.0 of Ruby In Steel Developer

The Road To ’Red Fire’

This is an outline of the major features in each release of Steel:

0.5 April 2006 Editing
 Code colouring
 Code collapsing
 Integrated interactive console
 Commenting/uncommenting
 Bracket matching/location
 Project Manager (tree view pane)
 Syntax errors - click to find

0.6 June 2006 Debugging
 Breakpoints
 drag/drop watch variables
 step into/step over
 autos window
 locals window
 call stack
 interactive debug console

0.7 July Ruby On Rails support
 Rails (rhtml) colouring and code collapsing
 Rails project management in Solution Explorer
 Rails New Project Wizard
 Import existing Rails projects
 Import Ruby Solutions from older versions of Steel
 Open Command Prompt in selected directory
 Build/Rebuild checks project-wide syntax
 Rails Toolbar and Menu
 Generate Controller/Model/Scaffold/Other
 Integrated SQL Server development
 Additional Configuration Options
 Pass flags to Ruby.exe
 File properties
 Project Properties

0.75 August
 Debugger: Rails support
 Significantly improved Ruby code colouring
 Improved Rails (RHTML) code colouring
 Improved code collapsing
 ’Collapse To Definitions’ implemented
 Optionally bypass Rails database creation (select ’None’)
 Improved software installation

Note: 0.75 is the last major public beta of the Personal Edition of Ruby In Steel. We shall continue to refine and extend the existing features leading to version 1.0 of Ruby In Steel Personal Edition early in 2007.

0.76 September
 Selectively omit hidden files and directories when importing projects
 Selectively omit files with specific extensions when importing
 Selectively omit hidden files and directories when synchronizing
 More checking to ensure success of synchronization and Project Importing

Ruby In Steel Developer Edition

The features in 0.8 plus...

0.8 October
 IntelliSense member completion
 IntelliSense drop down combo boxes in Editor
 RDoc QuickInfo tooltips
 Smart Indenting
 Snippets
 Ruby Explorer

0.9 November
 Fast Debugging
 Debugger: Expression expansion (‘drill down’)
 IntelliSense Parameter Info
 Underline errors in editor
 IntelliSense Goto Definition

0.95 December
 Extend and refine existing features

Version 1.0 – code name ‘Red Fire’
January 2007
Released in two editions:
 The Personal Edition
Has all the features up to 0.75 plus various minor additions and bug fixes.
 The Developer Edition
Has all the features shown to 0.95 above.