Ruby In Steel

Features

Debugging

• Speed - Ruby and Rails debugging is notoriously slow. Not any longer. Ruby In Steel’s Cylon debugger blazes through your code
• Breakpoints and tracing - Step into/step-out/step-over code in Ruby and Rails applications
• Hover and drill-down - Drill-down debugging lets you look inside objects and expand arrays and hashes in the docked debugging windows, in the code editor or even right inside the interactive Ruby console
• Dynamic debugging - Evaluate code and change the values of variables while debugging
• Conditional breakpoints - Break when a condition (a test of one or more values) is met

Editing

• Code colouring and cold folding - The code editors provide customisable coloring - even for Ruby code embedded into Rails (R)HTML. Code folding operates on classes, modules, methods, if blocks and many other constructs - including user-defined collapsible regions...
• Bracket and keyword/end matching - Opening and closing brackets are highlighted. A keyboard shortcut lets you move you cursor between brackets or Ruby keyword/end pairs such as class...end and def..end
• Snippets - auto-generate code blocks

IntelliSense

• Fast code completion analyses code as it is written - drop-down lists provide relevant and accurate information on the methods that are available to objects and classes (both those in the Ruby and Rails libraries and those that you write yourself). Code completion is automatically triggered by a dot after an identifier and by the double-colon :: scope resolution operator.
• Tooltips and parameter completion - Enter an opening bracket after a method name to see a highlighted hint showing parameters and their types. Hover over any object to see its fully-qualified (including ‘nested modules’) class name.
• Speed - Unlike some other Ruby editors, the Ruby In Steel code completion is fast

The Visual Rails Workbench

• Visual designer - The visual designer lets you drag and drop controls from the Toolbox and move and resize them with the mouse. You can adjust styles in a stylesheet or set properties for Ruby On Rails web pages in the Properties panel.
• Code editor - In code view the Document Outline displays a tree of the component parts and the editor highlights them in different coloured ‘overlays’ (indicating Layout, View, Partial).

Ruby On Rails Tools

• RHTML Editing - Code collapsing, code coloring, snippets, toggle between RHTML and HTML editing
• Analytical IntelliSense for Rails - Code completion is context sensitive for models, controllers, tests and views. Code completion even works on embedded Ruby in RHTML files.
• One-click debugging - Debug Rails applications fast - even into embedded Ruby (in RHTML templates) - using the ‘Cylon’ One-Click Debugger.

Tools and Wizards

• Fully integrated Ruby, Rails, Script and IRB consoles
• RDOC window shows formatted documentation when you hover over an object identifier in the editor
• The Ruby Explorer lets you navigate the class library - even into documentation extracted from C-source files
• Drop-down Navigation Bars over the editor for fast code navigation

The Ruby Connector

To design visual front ends for your Ruby programs, call the Ruby interpreter from your .NET applications or create ‘hybrid’ applications combining Ruby and a .NET language use the drag-and-drop component, the ‘Ruby Connector’.