IronRuby
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Developed by | Microsoft Dynamic Language Runtime Team |
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Preview release | IronRuby Alpha 2 / November 19, 2008 |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Platform | .NET |
Type | Ruby programming language compiler[1][2] |
License | Microsoft Public License |
Website | IronRuby Source |
IronRuby is an upcoming implementation of the Ruby programming language targeting Microsoft .NET framework. It is implemented on top of the Dynamic Language Runtime, a library running on top of CLR 2.0 that provides dynamic typing and dynamic method dispatch, among other things, for dynamic languages.[citation needed]
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[edit] History
On April 30, 2007, at MIX 2007, Microsoft announced IronRuby, which uses the same name as Wilco Bauwer's IronRuby project with permission.[3] It was planned to be released to the public at OSCON 2007.[4]
On July 23, 2007, as promised, John Lam and the DLR Design Team presented the pre-Alpha version of the IronRuby compiler at OSCON. He also announced a quick timeline for further integration of IronRuby into the open source community.[5]
On August 31, 2007, John Lam and the DLR Design Team released the code in its pre-alpha stage on RubyForge.[6] The source code has continued to be updated regularly by the core Microsoft team (but not for every check-in). The team also does not accept community contributions for the core Dynamic Language Runtime library, at least for now.[7]
On July 24, 2008, the IronRuby team released the first binary alpha version, in line with OSCON 2008.[8] On November 19, 2008, they released a second Alpha version.
The team is actively working to support Rails on IronRuby.[9][10] Some Rails functional tests start to run, but a lot of work still needs to be done to be able to run Rails in a production environment.[11]
[edit] Mono support
IronRuby may run on Mono as it does on Microsoft Common Language Runtime (CLR), but the IronRuby team only tests it with the CLR on Windows.[12], it does not build on Mono for the moment[13][14]
[edit] .NET interoperability
The interoperability between IronRuby classes and regular .NET Framework classes is very limited for the moment because many Ruby classes are not .NET classes.[15] However, better support for dynamic languages in .NET 4.0 may increase interoperability in the future.[16]
[edit] License
IronRuby is released under the Microsoft Public License, which is OSI-certified and close to a BSD-style license.[17]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ S. Somasegar. "Early look at IronRuby". http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/07/23/early-look-at-ironruby.aspx. Retrieved on 2007-07-25.
- ^ "RubyForge: IronRuby: Project Info". http://rubyforge.org/projects/ironruby/. Retrieved on 2007-09-07.
- ^ Wilco Bauwer. "Microsoft's Iron Ruby". http://www.wilcob.com/Wilco/IronRuby/microsoft_ironruby.aspx. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
- ^ John Lam. "Microsoft and IronRuby". http://www.iunknown.com/2007/05/microsoft_and_i.html. Retrieved on 2007-06-18.
- ^ John Lam. "A First Look at IronRuby". http://www.iunknown.com/2007/07/a-first-look-at.html. Retrieved on 2007-07-23.
- ^ Lam, John. "IronRuby on Rubyforge!". http://www.iunknown.com/2007/08/ironruby-on-rub.html. Retrieved on 2007-08-31. "Today, you must check the source code out of the IronRuby Subversion repository on Rubyforge. You will need a Subversion client; we recommend TortoiseSVN. To build the sources from the command line, you must also have Ruby installed on your computer already"
- ^ Lam, John (2008-04-29). "Regarding IronRuby... How true it sounds from this blog". http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/2008-April/001507.html. Retrieved on 2008-05-25. "The DLR is does not accept contributions from the community (...) Today we do not push to SVN on every successful SNAP check-in"
- ^ Lam, John (2008-07-24). "IronRuby at OSCON". http://www.iunknown.com/2008/07/ironruby-at-oscon.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-04. "We’re shipping our first binary release. In this package, we’re taking a “batteries included” approach and shipping the Ruby standard libraries in it"
- ^ "IronRuby on Rails". http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/schedule/detail/2056. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
- ^ Lam, John (2008-05-24). "IronRuby r112 is out". http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/2008-May/001911.html. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
- ^ Lam, John (2008-05-25). "IronRuby / Rails Question". http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/2008-May/001909.html. Retrieved on 2008-05-25. "I don't think we're near the end game yet :) We're barely able to run Rails functional tests now, and there's a lot more library work to be done before we can start thinking about deployment"
- ^ Sanghyeon, Seo (2008-08-06). "IronRuby and Mono". http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/2008-August/002553.html. Retrieved on 2008-09-13.
- ^ Vander Schelden, Wim (2008-09-04). "IronRuby and Mono". http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/2008-September/002787.html. Retrieved on 2008-09-13.
- ^ Hall, Ben (2009-01-23). "DLR Daily Builds (including IronRuby)". http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/2009-January/003654.html. Retrieved on 2009-01-23.
- ^ Hagenlocher, Curt (2008-12-16). "Xna+IronRuby+RubyNewb=headache". http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/2008-December/003390.html. Retrieved on 2008-12-20.
- ^ Brotherus, Robert (2008-12-12). "WPF databinding with ruby objects". http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/ironruby-core/2008-December/003378.html. Retrieved on 2008-12-13.
- ^ "IronRuby - A fast, compliant Ruby powered by .NET". 2007-09-06. http://ironruby.rubyforge.org/. Retrieved on 2007-09-06. "IronRuby heavily leverages Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime, and both are released with full source code under the Microsoft Public License."
[edit] External links
- IronRuby home page
- S. Somasegar's blog entry announcing IronRuby
- John Lam's IronRuby blog entry
- John Lam's IronRuby release blog
- State of IronRuby by John Lam at RubyConf 2007
- IronRuby: The Right Language for the Right Job by John Lam at PDC2008
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