SaphireSteel releases new Ruby on Rails IDE based on VS 2008 Shellhttp://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam/archive/2008/01/10/Ruby-on-Rails-releases-new-IDE-based-on-VS-2008-Shell.aspxWhile we've seen several community related projects released last month based on the VS 2008 Shell , just released is the first commercial product based on our free VS 2008 Shell: Ruby In Steel Text Edition by SaphireSteel Software, $49 . There are manyen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)re: SaphireSteel releases new Ruby on Rails IDE based on VS 2008 Shellhttp://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam/archive/2008/01/10/Ruby-on-Rails-releases-new-IDE-based-on-VS-2008-Shell.aspx#7065500Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:46:29 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7065500lextm<p>Luckily Ruby is a scripting language so does not require cross-compilation stuffs so a Windows based IDE is possible. But I really wonder why not use a cross-platform IDE like 3rdRails that runs on most OS platforms.</p> <p>VS Shell is great but IMHO only Windows based languages are in bad need of such a thing.</p>