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Ruby In Steel is a full featured Ruby IDE plugin for Visual Studio .net. It provides lots of great features for Ruby developers, and lots of shortcuts for Ruby on Rails developers. Ruby in Steel provides a very nice Ruby/Rails development experience.

The guys responsible for Ruby in Steel are also working on IronRuby in Steel. Still in the very early stages of the product, but it shows lots of promise, and already includes a visual form designer.

The installer also allows the user to install packages like rails, and mysql, great for those just getting started with Ruby. I didn’t happen to have rails installed on this VM, and the installer worked perfectly installing both IronRuby in Steel and Rails. IronRuby in Steel provides all the normal options of Ruby on Steel text edition, but also adds 2 new project types, IronRuby console app and IronRuby forms app. The experience is what you would expect as well. I started a new forms app, dragged a button onto the form, and then double clicked on the button. I was brought to the code where I was greeted with

Well, I added the button1.text = “changed” . Clicked Ruby Run, and my IronRuby forms app was running. Great start, and I would recommend anyone interested in doing more IronRuby, or even Ruby should look at Ruby in Steel’s suite of products, or their IronRuby product specifically.

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