Already available in a beta format, the product is intended to enable developers to use Ruby technologies without having to toggle back and forth from Visual Studio to another tool such as a ...

Windows developers will be able to hop on the Ruby bandwagon thanks to a new tool launched Monday: Ruby in Steel, a Ruby IDE for Visual Studio 2005.

With the connector, developers can create "visual front-ends" for their Ruby programs using the Visual Studio form designer, enabling Visual Basic or C# to call Ruby classes, variables and methods.

The latest free edition of Ruby In Steel now includes a free copy of Visual Studio. SapphireSteel Software released this free edition of their flagship Ruby and Rails IDE for Microsoft Visual ...

Ruby In Steel Text Edition, priced at $49, is hosted in the Visual Studio 2008 Shell, which enables tools to be built based on the Visual Studio IDE.

Software to be formally introduced later this year will link the Ruby programming language and the open source Ruby on Rails Web framework to Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 application ...