The product differs from IronRuby technology, which is intended to be an implementation of Ruby for the .Net Framework. IronRuby is geared toward enabling Ruby programs to run as .Net programs, whereas Ruby in Steel offers a fully integrated development suite for Ruby, Collingbourne said.
Also planned as part of the Sapphire in Steel project is a technology called Sapphire, which will focus on Windows applications, but with usefulness for Ruby programmers. "It will be aimed more at taking advantage of .Net and Windows [and Web development]. I can't really give anymore details at the moment," said Collingbourne.
Separate from the Ruby in Steel effort, MySQL also plans to integrate its open source MySQL database with Visual Studio 2005. The vendor is developing a plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 to allow Windows developers to rapidly build MySQL data-driven applications with Visual Studio, MySQL said.
MySQL recently announced participation in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner Program as an Alliance-level partner.
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