Life is grand

RIDE-ME is a neat Windows IDE for Ruby on Rails that will be very familiar to Visual Studio users. It is a good deal faster than RadRails and works more as I expect (coming from a Visual Studio background.)

I also have to say the developers are very responsive. I posted two tickets and within an hour they had been resolved and the code made available. This is the first time I have commented on an open-source project, had a response, downloaded the patched code and then used it properly as an app. Normally I wait for official releases and avoid the bleeding-edge trunk. This way works nicely though.

So well done to the RIDE-ME lads so far. Looking forward to the features they have planned and I hope I can contribute some more to the project.

Sapphire In Steel is an add-in for Visual Studio that provides Ruby syntax highlighting, debugging, project running and so on. Pretty much what you expect in your VS IDE.

Sadly it doesn’t work with Rails projects. I can’t seem to import a Rails folder/file structure and start editing.

I really want that. I’d love to be able to code Rails apps in the VS IDE. RadRails is a decent IDE but it has some way to go (I especially get frustrated with its code-editor. It needs the polish that VS has.)

So the moment Sapphire In Steel adds Rails support I’ll be a happy geek.