From: Huw Collingbourne <huw@...>
Date: 2007-10-21T18:29:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby For Me?

I was a Delphi programmer for 10 years so I know where you are coming 
from ;-)

I am now one of the developers of the Ruby in Steel IDE for Visual 
Studio and we are doing as much as is practically possible to make Ruby 
programming approachable to people who are used to Delphi, C#, VB etc.

Currently, a completely integrated event-driven visual design system 
like Delphi isn't possible. It *will* be possible when Microosft 
releases IronRuby (the Ruby implementation for .NET) and we already have 
a form designer 'in house' which will give you a Delphi-like experience 
with IronRuby.

The final version of IronRuby is still some way off, however. For the 
time being, therefore, we have a cross-language solution. You can design 
visual interfaces in a .NET language of your choice and link these into 
Ruby using a drag-and-drop control called the Ruby Connector. More on 
this here:

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/The-Ruby-Connector-For-NET

For visual web design with drag and drop, you'll have to wait until 
early next year when we shall be releasing the Visual Rails Workbench. 
We'll have more details on this quite soon in our blog.

best wishes
Huw Collingbourne

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