Ruby syntax highlighting in visual studio 2012

Question

I use rake scripts for running builds and would like to be able to get syntax highlighting within visual studio.

Is it possible to get ruby syntax highlighting in Visual Studio 2012?

I've been searching for a while but not come up with a solution yet. I'm only looking for free solutions so Ruby In Steel is out.

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Answer 1

Unfortunately the IronRuby tools for Visual Studio don't yet support VS2012.

I might be wrong about that though, it seems that the development has been moved to Github.

My preferred external editor is Sublime Text so I've opted use that for Ruby files. You just right click on your rakefile.rb is the VS solution explorer and choose "Open With". In the dialog you can add an editor of your choice and set it to be the default.