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So a couple of days ago, after seeing a post over at Softies on Rails, I downloaded and installed RIDE-ME. RIDE-ME is the latest entry into the Rails IDE space, following the likes of RadRails, Locomotive, and (in some aspects) Sapphire In Steel.

RIDE-ME looks and functions a lot like Visual Studio (which I know might not appeal to everyone), but unlike VS, it’s very light weight, has great syntax highlighting support, and is fast (which are all must haves for me when it comes to editors). After playing around with the application for a while, I wasn’t quite set to leave my current editor, but I was very excited about its future. I decided to keep my eye on the project’s weblog and continue to re-evaluate the application as features were added.

What happened next is still a bit of a blur, but the other day Michael posted that he had a new build that included initial support for editing code snippets, and asked for people interested in testing it to leave a comment. Little did I know that my interest in this new feature (and my comments with regard to implementation) would lead to me becoming a contributor, but it did! Thanks to my big commenting mouth, I’ve been given the task of implementing the code snippet support for RIDE-ME. Now, I haven’t worked with C# in a long time, so I was initially a little worried that I might actually slow the project down a bit while I knock off the rust, or, even worse, totally screw something up. Thankfully, Michael has done an excellent job in organizing the code base, so I should be able to hop in and make things happen without causing too many problems. ;-)

So, keep an eye out on the RIDE-ME Blog for updates from me as well as the others involved. The planned features, when finished, will most certainly make this the must-use IDE to use for Rails development on Windows.