Ruby In Steel 1.2 Hits The Streets 2
Those of us/you who develop Rails applications on Windows will probably want to check out the latest version of Ruby in Steel.
Just to give you an idea, imagine a real Visual Studio IDE, drag and drop form creation, built-in debugging, pretty smart IntelliSense (no easy feat for a dynamic language), and more. A 60-day trial period means there’s no excuse not to give it a whirl.
You can even develop IronRuby and JRuby apps with it. Check it out.
I have been using Ruby in Steel(RiS) for the past 6-8 months now. It is an excellent product. For me the biggest feature is the excellent debugging facilities (using their very fast cyclone Ruby debugger, amongst others). I can just put breakpoint(s) at any place in my code, inspect object and variable values by just hovering over the code and I can also step through my code. I can't image not using RiS. This is probably what keeps me from not owning and using a Mac :) (although I think that the Mac is also a very good product that can be used very productively for Rails development).
Correction to the above comment: I should have said ‘Cylon’ Ruby debugger and not Cyclone Ruby debugger. A bit of finger trouble on my side...apologies.