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uzo

Reputation: 2821

Possible to add Ruby syntax highlighting to Visual Studio 2008?

When I open a Ruby file (*.rb) inside Visual Studio, it reads like a regular text file - with no syntax highlighting on language keywords.

Is there any way to set this up in Visual Studio?

Update: No, I don't use Visual Studio for Ruby development - I use Netbeans. But I would like to open a Ruby file in Visual Studio and see the proper highlighting.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1437

Answers (3)

Daniel May
Daniel May

Reputation: 8226

I'm not entirely sure you can do it for free without the Ruby in Steel add-in.

If you're not completely happy with Visual Studio, perhaps you can use a text editor with syntax highlighting plugins freely available. I know Notepad++ has this feature.

Upvotes: 0

Jörg W Mittag
Jörg W Mittag

Reputation: 369428

There is a Ruby plugin for Visual Studio by Sapphire Steel Software, called Ruby in Steel.

Upvotes: 3

Rishav Rastogi
Rishav Rastogi

Reputation: 15492

There might be a plugin in Visual Studio, that may do that.

Use Netbeans, Textmate, jEdit, Eclipse for Ruby development, they are great IDEs.

( I am wondering why are you doing ruby development in Visual Studio, well you may have your reasons :) )

Upvotes: 0

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