# Make IR run as an external tool in VS

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/make-ir-run-as-an-external-tool-in-vs/172959>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [July 30, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/make-ir-run-as-an-external-tool-in-vs/172959 "2009-07-30T16:07:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mdeering)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/make-ir-run-as-an-external-tool-in-vs/172959/1 "2009-07-30T16:07:27Z")

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hi,  
was wondering if anyone could help.  
i’d like to be able to edit a ruby file in visual studio and just fire a  
key seqeunce to run the file.

similar to how rob conery set up the machine specifications runner in  
his IDE.  
this pushed all the output nicely to the output window in vs.

i gave it a try but am not sure how to replicate how the dev.bat file  
works.

anyone else done this??

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**Author:** ![mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mdeering)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/make-ir-run-as-an-external-tool-in-vs/172959/2 "2009-07-30T23:21:02Z")

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Michael D. wrote:

> hi,  
> was wondering if anyone could help.  
> i’d like to be able to edit a ruby file in visual studio and just fire a  
> key seqeunce to run the file.

You could use our free Visual Studio IronRuby IDE:  
[http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-For-IronRuby](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-For-IronRuby)

best wishes  
Huw C.

SapphireSteel Software  
[http://www.sapphiresteel.com](http://www.sapphiresteel.com)

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**Author:** ![mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mdeering)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/make-ir-run-as-an-external-tool-in-vs/172959/3 "2009-07-31T01:48:28Z")

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Huw C. wrote:

> Michael D. wrote:
> 
> > hi,  
> > was wondering if anyone could help.  
> > i’d like to be able to edit a ruby file in visual studio and just fire a  
> > key seqeunce to run the file.
> 
> You could use our free Visual Studio IronRuby IDE:  
> [http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-For-IronRuby](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-For-IronRuby)
> 
> best wishes  
> Huw C.
> 
> SapphireSteel Software  
> [http://www.sapphiresteel.com](http://www.sapphiresteel.com)

i’ve tried it, but as it says on your site its alpha, i couldnt get it  
to work properly. i’ll look again once you guys have done some work on  
it.  
to be honest i’d buy the text edition right away if it did what i  
wanted.

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**Author:** ![mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mdeering)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 11:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/make-ir-run-as-an-external-tool-in-vs/172959/4 "2009-07-31T11:21:37Z")

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Just to clarify that we are waiting for IR 1.0 before commiting any more  
time to our IronRuby support. In the meantime, the old alpha IDE still  
works with IronRuby though you may need to adopt this interim fix:  
[http://sapphiresteel.com/forum/index.php?topic=355.0](http://sapphiresteel.com/forum/index.php?topic=355.0)

best wishes  
Huw

SapphireSteel Software  
[http://www.sapphiresteel.com](http://www.sapphiresteel.com)

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**Author:** ![mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@mdeering](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mdeering)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/make-ir-run-as-an-external-tool-in-vs/172959/5 "2009-07-31T11:30:49Z")

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By the way, going back to your original idea of running IR as an  
external tool. What is the problem here? I wrote a small tutorial once  
explaining how to run MySQL as a VS shortcut:  
[http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-On-Rails-and-MySQL-faster](http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-On-Rails-and-MySQL-faster)

Are there any things different about running IR in that way?

best wishes

Huw

SapphireSteel Software  
[http://www.sapphiresteel.com](http://www.sapphiresteel.com)