Sasha Sydoruk

SapphireSteel Software today formally announced Ruby In Steel Developer – the only professional Ruby programming environment for Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005.

Ruby In Steel Developer provides a full suite of editing and debugging tools for Ruby and Ruby On Rails (‘Rails’) developers. Product highlights include:

Editing
 Ruby and Rails (RHTML) code coloring
 Ruby and Rails code folding/collapsing
 Smart Indenting and code formatting
 Ruby auto-expand snippets

Debugging
 Ultra-fast integrated debugger
 Step-Into/Step-Over/Step-Out tracing
 ‘Drill-down’ watch variables
 Interactive ‘run and debug’ console

IntelliSense
 Accurate (by class and scope) member completion
 Parameter completion tooltips
 Class and method documentation in tooltips
 Code navigation drop-down combos over the editor

Ruby On Rails
 Import Existing Ruby On Rails Projects
 Rails Toolbar and script-runner dialogs
 RHTML / HTML switchable editor
 One-click Rails Debugger

A complete feature list can be found on the SapphireSteel web site:
Feature List