Ruby In Steel 2 - Bits du Jour .. goes with Visual Studio Express

[Steven Avery]

Hi,

Anybody able to share on this special ?

Ruby In Steel 2
Professional Ruby Development for Visual Studio
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/ruby-in-steel-2/

Note the discussion about using the Visual Studio Express edition combined with this and Rails.

Steven

[justice]

How is this related to IronRuby?
http://www.ironruby.net/

[ewemoa]

IIUC IronRuby is Ruby integrated with .NET, while Ruby In Steel is an IDE for Ruby.  No idea whether the latter can be used for the former.

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Products/Ruby-In-Steel/article/ruby-in-steel-developer-overview

[Steven Avery]

Thanks.
I lost interest in this when I realized I would be working with a skeleton Visual Studio.

If I am going to learn this Ruby and rails stuff, I might as well learn it more native.

Steven

[ewemoa]

On a side note, a bit back I started to work through:

  Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example

As far as I got, I found it to be pretty decent -- but then I discovered alternatives to Rails and got side-tracked