Ironruby core - Feb 2008 - Ruby In Steel IronRuby Edition - alpha now available

The first public alpha of our IronRuby IDE is now available for free
download. This includes our IronRuby form designer with drag+drop
controls, properties panel, syntax coloring, code collapsing, code
formatting, bracket matching, keyword..end matching, project setup
wizards, project management in the solution explorer etc. It does not
currently include debugging or IntelliSense.

You can read about its features and limitations on the download page:

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-For-IronRuby

Have fun!

Huw

SapphireSteel Software
Ruby and Rails In Visual Studio
http://www.sapphiresteel.com
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Thanks for the great tool Huw! 

Have been playing with that for a while and feels really decent for an
"alpha" version :-)

Since we IronRuby early adopters are "living on the bleeding edge",
there might be quite a few (including our company) that are more
interested in WPF GUI:s (preverably with XAML, but possibly without)
instead of the older Windows Forms. I am curious about Sapphire Steels
plans / opinions on feasibility of combining WPF/XAML support their
tool?

I have myself a working proto of an application with WPF/XAML defined
GUI:s and IronRuby event-handlers implemented as proxy-objects for the
MSBuild-generated WPF Widget classes. While this approach works, it is
not optimally elegant since the event handler methods are not
first-class members of the widget classes. But we could not take the
approach of extending the WPF-classes as IronRuby-classes because of our
heavy reliance of XAML that refers to other XAML-defined custom classes:

<Panel>
	<OurCustomWidget a="xxx" b="yyy/>
</Panel>

To my understanding XAML does not support a DLR-classes (=IronRuby) as
"OurCustomWidget" in such context (I would be happy to be proven wrong
of course! :-)


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[mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Huw
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Sent: 28. helmikuuta 2008 16:36
To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
Subject: [Ironruby-core] Ruby In Steel IronRuby Edition - alpha now
available

The first public alpha of our IronRuby IDE is now available for free
download. This includes our IronRuby form designer with drag+drop
controls, properties panel, syntax coloring, code collapsing, code
formatting, bracket matching, keyword..end matching, project setup
wizards, project management in the solution explorer etc. It does not
currently include debugging or IntelliSense.

You can read about its features and limitations on the download page:

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-For-IronRuby

Have fun!

Huw

SapphireSteel Software
Ruby and Rails In Visual Studio
http://www.sapphiresteel.com
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Thanks for the comments, Robert. In principle, WPF support is not 
difficult and as a general rule we plan to ''move forward'' with
Ruby In
Steel. Currently, our alpha product is very basic (though I''m pleased
to
hear you say that it doesn''t seem so!) - and, really, we are waiting
for
a few more iterations of IronRuby development before going too far 
ahead. So things such as WPF, debugging and IntelliSense will have to 
wait till later.

We actually have implemented some IntelliSense already but we turned it 
off for the alpha release as it is by no means yet as good as the 
IntelliSense in our standard product. We felt it was worth waiting until 
IronRuby itself was a bit more mature before putting effort into 
supporting the full range of features and technologies that you would 
expect in the finished product.

best wishes
Huw

SapphireSteel Software
Ruby and Rails In Visual Studio
http://www.sapphiresteel.com
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Dear Huw,

I am referring to your post in IronRuby Forums on Google Groups about 
Ruby in Steel ( IronRuby Edition ).

I was pleased to know, that you will be offering the final version for 
free, after IronRuby 1.0 ships.

Now... this is the great community support, which i hardly expected.

It seems , we have received Great News before the Mix 2008.

Thanks for donating such a great IDE for IronRuby.

P.S.:- you should announce this here, to gain more mileage, since 
IronRuby on Google Groups is still growing, with limited members.

SoftMind.

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Softmind Technology wrote:
> Thanks for donating such a great IDE for IronRuby.
> 
> P.S.:- you should announce this here, to gain more mileage, since 
> IronRuby on Google Groups is still growing, with limited members.
> 
> SoftMind.
Thanks for the interest. Sorry if I didn''t make it clear. Yes, our 
IronRuby IDE is not just free now (in alpha). We intend to make the 
"Ruby In Steel Personal Edition For IronRuby" a free product even
after
the final version of IronRuby is released.

If I''m not announcing this in the right groups to let those people with
an interest in IronRuby know about this, please feel free to spread the 
word ;-)

best wishes
Huw
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Hello Huw.

I understand that you habe suppled few sample codes for IronRuby as 
follows
C:\Program Files\SapphireSteel Software\Ruby In Steel\v1.0\Samples

Is it possible to get a separate download to study those codes.

Currently it becomes compulsory to download the alpha software to study 
the codes.

It would be nice, if you can offer a separate download for sample codes, 
till beta is around.

just my 2 cents

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Softmind Technology wrote:
> Hello Huw.
> 
> I understand that you habe suppled few sample codes for IronRuby as 
> follows
> C:\Program Files\SapphireSteel Software\Ruby In Steel\v1.0\Samples
> 
> Is it possible to get a separate download to study those codes.
I could do, I guess. But I''m not sure that the code without the IDE 
would be all that interesting ;-) Install the IDE, on the other hand, 
and the code will spring into life... !

Also bear in mind that the ''code behind'' (the file that
defines the
layout and wires up events) will change once we have incorporate 
IronRuby''s delegation mechanism which is not (or anyway *was* not?) 
available for this iteration of the IDE. Incidentallly, the full 
download is not that big (about 7MB). That gives you all the software 
you need to install the IronRuby IDE into a standard copy of VS2008.

The download only gets big if you also need a free copy of VS2008 (the 
''VS Shell'') into which to install the IronRuby IDE. For that
you will
have to download the installer for the TextEdition of Ruby In Steel, use 
that to install VS itself (but uncheck the option to install the 
TextEdition) then subsequently install the IronRuby IDE. This installer 
is about 170MB - but you *only* need that if you haven''t already got a 
copy of VS2008.

best wishes
Huw

SapphireSteel Software
Ruby and Rails In Visual Studio
http://www.sapphiresteel.com
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