Does Visual Studio support Ruby?

Being that Ruby is object oriented programming....does Ruby have it's own GUI to work with or can you code with Ruby in Visual Studio? If Ruby has it's own software to code with what is the name of that software?
Thanks in advance

Ruby has its own interpreter. See: http://ruby-lang.org

Most people who write Ruby do so using Textmate on a Mac. 

I don't know a ton about Ruby but I know that, at least in the 2010 release of .net (and in 2008), 'IronRuby' is supported by .net.

For starters, I should explain who I am and what my role is in this area. I?m the Product Unit Manager for Visual Studio Languages. In this role, I manage a portfolio of .NET languages (VB, C#, F#, IronPython, IronRuby) and the Dynamic Languages Runtime.

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You can find IronRuby and instructions here: http://ironruby.net/documentation/rails

why dont you use a simple editor like notepad or notepad++? an ide isnt needed though.

but i can recommend netbeans and eclipse!

IronRuby will handle ruby development with .net but i found it was pretty terrible.

Netbeans Eclipse and RubyMine are ide's for windows...

but you're going to have a terrible time figuring out ruby/rails on a windows box, its just not ment to be...


the best environment for ruby development is a mac. TextMate + Terminal + FireFox

you can also use linux but the text editors are pretty grotesque and ide's are overrated