Short presentation on Iron Ruby for Tampa Day of Ruby

1. Will Green
http://hotgazpacho.org/
@hotgazpacho

2.  What is IronRuby?
 DLR? What?
 DLR Services
 What can I DO with IronRuby?
 Getting IronRuby
 Additional Resources

3. + =
 Simply put, its Microsoft’s implementation of
Ruby that runs on the .Net runtime (CLR)
 It is one of many dynamic languages that run
in the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)

4.  The DLR sits on top of the CLR
 It provides services to dynamic languages:
 A Dynamic Type System, shared by all languages
using DLR services
▪ It doesn’t matter language. If you find a library you like in
a language that will run on the DLR, you can use it!
 A Hosting API
▪ Host IronRuby (or any DLR language) inside your
C#/VB.Net app, even Silverlight!

5. Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the Dynamic Language
Runtime

6.  Test (TDD/BDD) your CLR code with Ruby
 Iron Ruby + RSpec was featured in February and
March issues of MSDN Magazine
 Cucumber wiki on GitHub explains how to set up
icucumber.bat, and comes with an example

7.  Build GUIs with a simple DSL
 WinForms
 WPF
 Silverlight
 Interact with Silverlight
 http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/03/testing-c-
silverlight-apps-with.html
 Script desktop apps, like AutoCAD
 http://through-the-
interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2009/0
4/using-ironruby-inside-autocad.html

8.  Yes, you read that right!
 Rails now runs on Rack
 Rack is a web server interface, kind of like FastCGI
 ironruby-rack is an HttpHandler for running rack
apps in the ASP.Net Pipeline
 ironruby-rack is pretty new, so expect some rough
edges
 You can leverage your current deployment
strategy to deploy Rails

9.  Download the latest release from CodePlex
 http://ironruby.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectRele
ases.aspx
 Download Edge (pre-compiled zip archive)
 http://github.com/ironruby/ironruby/zipball/mast
er
 Get the source and compile yourself
 http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby
 You’ll need VS 2008 and MSysGit

10.  http://ironruby.net/
 http://rubydoes.net/
 http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/
 Jimmy Scementi, IronRuby + Silverlight dev at Microsoft
 http://flanders.co.nz/
 Ivan Porto Carrero, IronRuby contributor
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/magazine/dd453038.aspx
 http://github.com/ironruby/ironruby-contrib
 http://ironruby.codeplex.com/
 http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
 http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnnetframew
ork35.aspx?tab=Videos&seriesid=124&webcastid=6398
 IrornRuby for C# devs screencast from Microsoft