From: Huw Collingbourne <huw@...>
Date: 2007-01-30T02:45:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby In Steel Developer For Visual Studio


"Justin Bailey" <jgbailey@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:a45dff840701290857u165f4914u5dc13f6f663241a3@mail.gmail.com...
> On 1/29/07, Huw Collingbourne <huw@delthisbitdarkneon.com> wrote:
>>  SapphireSteel Software today announced the immediate availability of 
>> Ruby
>> In Steel Developer - the only professional Ruby programming environment 
>> for
>> Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005.
>
> I've been using the Personal Edition of this product for a few months
> now, and if you like editing in Visual Studio, it's excellent.
>

Thanks :-)

> I downloaded the 30-day trial because I'd really like to see the
> IntelliSense. So far, so good. The only wrinkle I ran into was the
> "key.bin" file downloaded must be in the same directory were you unzip
> the install. If not, the installed throws an exception and fails.
>

Yes, the key is needed to activate the setup for te Trial (and developer ) 
editions. I agree that the installer warn people that this is needed prior 
to starting (currently we only check for the key a few dialogs in) - that is 
already on our ToDo list and should be added soon.

> Thanks for a cool product - I hope to explore it fully in the month ahead!
>

Please keep in touch. If you have any comments, feel free to drop us an 
email or pop into the online forum to talk about it.

best wishes
Huw Collingbourne

http://www.sapphiresteel.com
Ruby Programming In Visual Studio 2005