# SharpDevelop

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sharpdevelop/192171>\
**Category:** IronRuby\
**Created:** [July 25, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sharpdevelop/192171 "2010-07-25T16:27:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Miguel\_Madero](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/4da419/32.png) [@Miguel\_Madero](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Miguel_Madero)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sharpdevelop/192171/1 "2010-07-25T16:27:35Z")

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I saw this on twitter  
today[http://twitter.com/SharpDevelop/statuses/19486122559](http://twitter.com/SharpDevelop/statuses/19486122559)that  
SharpDevelop 4.0 supports IronRuby 4.0  
[http://build.sharpdevelop.net/buildartefacts/](http://build.sharpdevelop.net/buildartefacts/)

[http://build.sharpdevelop.net/buildartefacts/](http://build.sharpdevelop.net/buildartefacts/)There have been questions  
before abetout IDE support so I thought some of you might be interested.

A quick summary of my first impression after 10 minutes of playing with  
it:

The good

- I found it’s nice and straight forward to just go File New Project,  
Ruby  
app, set a break point, hit F5 and step through.
- I noticed that it allow us to add references and Web Service  
References to  
a project, not sure what this would translate to in a Ruby project.
- It feels like a similar environment for .NET devs, they seem to make  
interop really easy (e.g having C# and Ruby projects sitting together in  
the  
same solution).

The bad

- I think that other IDEs, in particular RubyMine are better targeted  
for  
Ruby development (e.g. use of Cucumber, run tasks, execute scripts, run  
rake  
tasks, etc)
- Might not be a big deal, but it only has templates for Winforms,  
Console  
and Class Library (not sure what the last one means in the IR world),  
but  
not for WPF, MVC or Rails

Overall is good that we start having some products supporting IR out of  
the  
box. I hope more will follow. Nice

Disclaimer, this is a nightly build and not sure how stable it’s.