I can't imagine that many Ruby programmers have a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 hanging around, so I'm thinking the target demographic for
Steel is developers who are used to VS but want to get into Ruby programming without interrupting their workflow. Steel is a free language add-on for VS 2005 that aim "to leverage all the features of Visual Studio." Currently Steel does syntax coloring and running scripts with a keystroke. More complex features aren't yet included but development seems to be progressing rapidly so hopefully it won't be long before features like code completion and IntelliSense are implemented. Check the
Steel blog for lots of screenshots and development updates, or head
straight to the download page.
Tags: freeware, ide, microsoft, ruby, steel, visualstudio, vs, vs2005, windows
