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My Interview with Huw Collingbourne up on InfoQ

April 23, 2008 by Rob Bazinet

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I have been a happy Ruby in Steel user for quite a while now and have built a bit of a rapport with Huw Collingbourne, co-founder of SapphireSteel Software, the developers of Ruby in Steel.huw1

On Monday, SapphireSteel Software released a new version of Ruby in Steel, version 1.2.  This version includes a new Visual Rails Workbench that allows developers to create Ruby on Rails applications visually as Visual Studio developers have come to expect.

From the Ruby in Steel web site:

The principal features of the Visual Rails Workbench are:

- Full page editing of complete web pages (composites of Rails layouts/views/partials)
- Drag and Drop design – add controls from a toolbox
- Set properties using the Property panel
- Resize and move controls using mouse or keyboard
- Split view code/form editing
- Toggle ERb/RHTML editing between HTML editor and Rails (Ruby-aware) editor
- Round-tripping between ‘web format’ HTML and ‘Rails format’ ERb/RHTML
- Edit code as ERb/RHTML or as HTML
- Document Navigator navigates document structure (HTML)/or methods (ERB/Ruby)
- Quick navigation between controller and view
- Import/Export to other web page design tools such as Dreamweaver
- Save/restore named ‘versions’ of page designs to/from an archive of work in progress
- Auto-backup of changes to templates
- Support for Rails 1 and Rails 2

The Visual Rails Workbench is one of several significant new additions to Ruby In Steel 1.2.

Other notable features include:

- JRuby Support Users may run and debug Sun’s Java-based JRuby right inside the Ruby In Steel environment.
- IronRuby Support Ruby In Steel is the only IDE to offer integrated form design for Microsoft’s IronRuby (currently ‘alpha’).
- Enhanced Debugging Ruby In Steel has the fastest debugger for standard Ruby. In addition to all its existing capabilities (such as breakpoints, watch variables, call stack navigation, step into/out/over, locals, autos, drill-down debugging and debugging into ERb/RHTML templates)

Ruby In Steel 1.2 adds the following debugging features:

  • Tracepoints
  • Conditional breakpoints
  • Break on hitcount
  • Run macro on break
  • Break on exception
  • Autos window user-configuration
  • Dynamic debugging (evaluate code and change variable values on the fly)

I had the opportunity to chat with Huw about Visual Rails Workbench for the interview which can be read at InfoQ.

Technorati Tags: Ruby on Rails, Ruby in Steel, Visual Rails Workbench, Visual Studio

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