SapphireSteel Software, which has specialized in development tools for Ruby programmers, plans to soon release a visual design environment for Ruby on Rails, to be named The Visual Rails Workbench. Due in late-February, the environment will be an addition to SapphireSteel's Ruby In Steel Developer IDE, which is a Ruby development tool for Visual Studio users. In addition to a design workspace, the workbench will SapphireSteel Software, which has specialized in development tools for Ruby programmers, plans to soon release a visual design environment for Ruby on Rails, to be named The Visual Rails Workbench.Due in late-February, the environment will be an addition to SapphireSteel’s Ruby In Steel Developer IDE, which is a Ruby development tool for Visual Studio users. In addition to a design workspace, the workbench will feature tools to navigate through ERb templates and to drag and drop components. ERb is the native Rails view format, SapphireSteel said. “The main benefit [of the workbench] is that, for the first time Rails developers will be able to design complete Web pages including styles, colors, graphics and forms,” said SapphireSteel Director of Technology Huw Collingbourne, in an email. Developers also will be able to import and export pages to and from external HTML editors. The Visual Rails Workbench will be part of Ruby in Steel 1.2 Developer.A screen shot of the workbench can be found here. Technology Industry