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Ruby Singletons

over 5 years ago by Dermot on Ruby In Steel.
I finally understand singletons. These have been bugging me for some time, not helped by quite a lot of misleading information going around. I've seen several...

The devil is in the detail

almost 6 years ago by Dermot on Ruby In Steel.
We've just finished up the release of 0.7.5. As the number indicates, this isn't a release with a lot of new functionality in it – but that doesn...

IntelliSense (phase 1)

over 5 years ago by Dermot on Ruby In Steel.
IntelliSense is progressing nicely, though it's taken me somewhat longer to get it integrated into Visual Studio than I was expecting. The main problem...

QuickInfo and RDoc

over 5 years ago by Dermot on Ruby In Steel.
I've just got RDoc working as IntelliSense QuickInfo. Here's a couple of screenshots … The first shows a simple ‘hover' over the variable x...

IntelliSense in depth

over 5 years ago by Dermot on Ruby In Steel.
IntelliSense can mean different things to different people. When it's capitalised like 'IntelliSense', it usually means Microsoft's Visual Studio version...

Ruby IntelliSense – the finer points

over 5 years ago by Dermot on Ruby In Steel.
There's quite a difference between analysing a Ruby program for IntelliSense and running it (as the Ruby interpreter obviously does). You do not want to...

Ruby Debugger - drilldown

over 5 years ago by Dermot on Ruby In Steel.
I'm just starting to get some results through after working with the latest Ruby In Steel debugger. This is the fast version - the one that's going into...

Fast Ruby Debugger - Enter Cylon

over 5 years ago by Dermot on Ruby In Steel.
I've been working on the new Ruby In Steel debugger and I've now got some results. The debugger is called ‘Cylon' – the reasons being... it...

Ruby IntelliSense – scoping fun

over 5 years ago by Dermot on Ruby In Steel.
I've just been fine tuning Steel to handle some of the more obscure Ruby syntax. There's quite a bit of really obscure stuff that you probably wouldn't...

Filling out Ruby IntelliSense

over 5 years ago by Dermot on Ruby In Steel.
We're just getting ready for the next drop of the current beta of the Developer Edition ('Red Fire'). I've spent most of the last two weeks since the first...