Skip to navigation
   
Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe's Blog

Ruby in the Studio

By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe in Editorial

Posted in Software, Developer, Windows, Microsoft on October 6, 2008 at 9:36 pm

Permalink | Author Profile

A while back Microsoft announced that it was changing the licensing requirements for Visual Studio. Yes, it probably was a response to the success of Eclipse, but it also changed the way Microsoft worked with development tools partners. Two significant announcements today show that it’s a strategy that is starting to pay off.

So what did Microsoft do? First, anyone could get access to the Visual Studio IDE. That meant you could use its editor, and its code completion tools with any language. You could host anything yyou liked in the Visual StudioShell, using it for modelling tools, for programming, or for just about anything you wanted. A generic multi-pane shell could host just about any application, from a E-911 call centre hub, to a (dare we say it in these times of crisis) bank trading desk.

The second part of the change was one of the most significant. Now you didn’t need to target Windows with your development tools. That meant you could use Visual Studio to host a PHP editor working against UNIX Apache web servers, or a development tool for Android or BlackBerry.

One of the tools announced today works in just that way. SapphireSteel’s Ruby In Steel is a Ruby On Rails development tool, built entirely inside the Visual Studio Shell. You can running the resulting code on any Ruby interpreter - whether it’s a Windows version (like Microsoft’s own IronRuby) or one running on a Linux web server somewhere on Amazon’s hosted RedHat EC2 servers.

While Ruby In Steel is a commercial tool,

12345
Not yet rated
Loading ... Loading ...

Previous Post | Next Post

 
 
Comments

Trackback by Marvin Seutter - February 9, 2012 on 3:54 am

sopa de letras gratis…

[…]making it 13 victories from 13 races – said of her decision[…]…

Trackback by Gail Brazell - February 9, 2012 on 8:18 am

will smith gay illuminati…

[…]council employees at Lennox’s last charm hearing back in September. […]…

Make a comment

* required

* required

We stop spam using reCaptcha.
Type the words below and click Submit Comment.

   
Tag cloud

demo disk space Tablet Kiosk NexT application compatibility .NET community griffin macbook tele atlas public cloud firewall Previous Versions infrastructure mobile electricity price Ray Ozzie designer virus mainframe Opera ubuntu moscow future in review performance dvi Numenta CES switch RSA 2008 web 2.0 expo browser information rights management mobile working optical interconnects thermo Opteron android pgp O2 Delphi virtualisation consolidation bletchley park Windows Server 2008 wireless USB RIA mobile ofcom network Netscape legislation maps Netscan uninstall patent rich client laptop Tablet PC MING traffic cloud computing Gears co-processor netbooks Java software HP bugs Embarcadero Dell nvision08 bandwidth Visual Studio emulator BlackBerry BitLocker city Treo Pro CUDA MRDA OFCOM project workflow remove back active digitiser fire green IT netbook MIX08 VSSAdmin Dopplr server Ruby On Rails it pro Seagate pre-boot power cuts business intelligence AIR colossus SapphireSteel Wimbledon parallel computing hibernation business model spam wes DisplayLink connectivity apps WPF macro power supply ClipMate microsoft security essentials anti-trust wubi Jeff Jones IIW2008b fibre visualisation Trend Micro mms 2009 2009 Nokia innovation task bar target OEM GPU demo09 disaster recovery teched Mozilla exabytes camera hp microsoft research GPL isps installation troubleshooting IT automation TechEd 2008 gamer amherst TouchSmart WinHEC numbers display media BES backhaul Google IO open market share SP1 Motorola Hp 2710p webkit annotation Smartbook cisco forensics IT policy Trampoline semiotics system center CTO RSS search OQO Xobni security MIX Chrome offload cracking ec2 mobile network hold music T9 web cam telecoms Hugh Thompson Lenovo Location transcoding mythbusters p2v beta natural interface geotagging bbc iplayer trends EMC ipv6 atom meaning Greasemoneky user experience Istanbul battery life distributed computing NAS CPU LiveID CERN office politics patch Tuesday Ask.com terabytes windows MWC monitor QWERTY national museum of computing catalyst Windows Live Google phone management business continuity processors mobility old software bolt AuthenTec Large Hadron Collider no signal private cloud international roaming ports spam fighting Web 2.0 pen computing Windows Server secure keyboard rtm screen security theatre Windows Mobile Gartner 3G navigation CardSpace SKU Bill Cheswick RAZR Magny-Cours ikea xT9 biometrics venture capital london merger Mini-Note lockdown credit crunch drivers Tim Berners-Lee cosmic rays enterprise HTC Mark Hurd adfs competition Ruby Jeff Hawkins sun GPS Skyfire 64-bit open source security paradox downturn Windows 7 vs Windows Vista navteq privacy applications IT value flex business technology optimisation SMB 2 productivity Xen Eee PC Live Mesh goview data tariff MacBook Air 2.0 relocation direct access office business technology automation case Pal Asus IDF DOS management 965 screencam thin client social engineering Acrobat Pro smartphone timezones Trolltech identity theft g-2 police RIM anti-patterns Nuance support Tripit data centre transformation Mono Loki quiz tennis iPhone vulnerabilities cloud service google online applications rc data loss prevention d2c netiquette HMT yahoo futura tablet IT transformation Internet Explorer 8 education aws fault history video database DOSBox Crossfader ipsec wave Palm Barracuda developer Bill Gates icons bombe mysql hacking greenplum Google Spreadsheets IO pixetell images legacy Secunia Wyse insert SIM docking station culture user interface twitter people storage Fire Eagle social networking i-mate turing Internet mapping winhec2008 Safari acquisitions collaboration interoperability mobile Linux Protected View robot information cards logitech Volume Shadow Copy power saving TSA appzero fingerprint usb Tom Hogan evernote server sprawl desktop. PC windows 7 Microsoft Palladium routing lost server data loss congestion charge analytics Intel safend hardware flash drive utilities streaming media mash-up hyper-v moblin benchmark oracle hierarchical temporal memory iPass geek tourism WEI citrix Salesforce vmware fingerprint scanner regulation wildfire calit2 system management Verbatim FUD Sony mscape toshiba hard drive enterprise architecture AMD installer HSDPA green printing todo list information Qualcomm outlook Quest networks microsoft research ontier Tombstone Objects deperimeterization DSL mobile data tariffs Apple Internet Explorer radeon development Bing NVIDIA Beacon ultraportable Clear RX bea Girl Geek Dinners Linux data clean install WWW Enterprise 2.0 IM IBM bug BT hdmi EEE conferences voice recognition multiple monitors voice codec encryption advertising licensing Moonlight whitelist context augmented reality ANR data centre cold fusion setup gameboard gabriola DLP power SSD Corsair Toshiba Portege R500 service oriented enterprise accessories CIO cellcrypt MAX LHC disk training utility office 2010 Silverlight machine learning Active Directory g-1 flash malware christmas Vodafone ribbon Credentica Mercury OpenID business Opsware ADFS 2.0 claims phone settings UMPC instant messaging network politics wifi media center cloud geneva Google Sets verdana T-Mobile appstore virtual desktop NGSCB etech O'Reilly geocaching amazon html eu exchange isp SBS M&A magic control panel beta test conference ucsd identity metasystem RBL upgrade Facebook search mobile broadband Itanium ruggedized gaming deborah adler dual boot BBC HSPA accelerator Frauenhofer migration fonts Adobe Reqall ATI Express Gate how do I get the back off? Firefox design cables high performance computing october ballmerbot web2expo AskEraser identitity email ProCurve dual display anti-virus regulations MacWorld 2008 lawsuit windows server 2008 r2 HTML 5 Vista
Advertisement
Advertisement