Ruby In Steel 2

Professional Ruby Development for Visual Studio

A scripting language that's designed to be more powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python, Ruby has steadily gained ground among developers. And yet, Windows users who make their coin as Visual Studio developers have been left out in the cold, until now! Today's promotion features Ruby in Steel 2, the only professional Ruby development tool for Visual Studio, providing you with the ability to edit and debug projects targeting both standard Ruby as well as JRuby, along with a cornucopia of tools for developing Ruby on Rails apps! All of this, and so much more, can be yours today at a significant discount.

Take, for example, Ruby in Steel 2's super-duper fast 'Cylon' debugger, which completely tears down the traditional notion that all Ruby and Rails debugging is slow and arduous! With Ruby in Steel 2, you'll be able to step through your code, with drill-down debugging that gives you the power to look inside objects, expand arrays and hashes, and more. You get the benefit of extremely detailed control over your debugging process, by using conditional breakpoints that only trigger breaks when your precise conditions are met. Tools and windows supporting Ruby in Steel 2 debugging include Watch, Locals, Autos, Quick Watch, Breakpoints, and Call Stack.

But what about editing? After all, the creation of great software begins with precise editing! Ruby in Steel 2 does not disappoint, bringing code colors and code folding, plus bracket and keyword/end matching to enable you to move through your code effortlessly! Do you have frequently used code blocks? Customize Ruby in Steel 2 with snippets that let you auto-generate entire blocks of code with just a few keystrokes. Throw in fast code completion that analyzes code as you write it, and you can literally feel your productivity rising!

Please note folks: Ruby In Steel can be used with the free ('Shell') edition of Visual Studio 2010 in addition to the regular commercial edition. So, if you don't already own a copy of VS2010 but want to start using Ruby in Steel today, you're in luck! SapphireSteel even supplies an option to download and install the free version of VS2010 via the Ruby installer!