IronShay

IronRuby Journey Update #0

Well, the journey is going very slow… But I wanted to let you know that it’s on!

This is update #0 and not #1 because it’s an update. I’ve decided to help the community with this journey, so instead of writing VS integration, I’ll be writing a Silverlight weather widget that uses web services for fetching data.

I even appear on the IronRuby Wiki as a contributor:

(From: http://wiki.github.com/ironruby/ironruby/contributing)

I have already started and I have some insights about doing Silverlight stuff with Iron languages. This is going to be the content of update #1.

Stay tuned,
Shay.

An Invitation To My IronRuby Journey

I’ve just realized that I’ve been preaching about IronRuby and the DLR - telling you to use it, showing you how, but I’ve never deep dived into it by myself. So I’ve decided to go deeper and examine IronRuby in “real life” situations. I want to run into its rough edges, write workarounds, feel the engine.

How far are we from V1? Is 0.3 really 70% far from being complete? from being ready to use?
I’m planning to find out the answers in the tough way – by getting my hands dirty!

You’re probably wondering how I’m gonna do that. Well, it’s simple – I’m going to take ideas and develop them entirely in IronRuby. I will write here about my experience and share my thoughts, critic, successes and failures.

My first idea I’m going to work on is an ironic one – An IronRuby Visual Studio Integration.
The target is to achieve a simple code coloring ability and an auto-completion mechanism for IronRuby inside VS.

If you have more ideas for the rest of the journey, please let me know!

Off we go!

Shay.

Bringing The IRON To Ruby @ TechDays 2009

Thanks everyone for attending my session “Bringing the IRON to Ruby” at the TechDays 2009 – Defy All Challenges event. I had great fun and I hope you did too!

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me through the contact page.

[Update 04/10] You can watch the presentation online!

Downloads: Presentation (1.54Mb) | Demos (3.28Mb)

Thanks for attending,
Shay.

Getting Started with IronRuby

The web is filled with lots of resources about Ruby and .Net. It does lack of resources about the combination – IronRuby. I’m sure this will get better as time goes by and official releases are out the door.

Here I’ll try to gather the most effective resources for you so your entrance to the IronRuby world will be smooth and enjoyable.

IronRuby resources

• IronRuby.net – the official site and a great place to start.
• IronRuby Mailing List – THE place to ask questions (look here if you prefer to watch it in a forum view).
• GitHub site – IronRuby code repository on GitHub.
• GitHub wiki - How to get, build, debug and contribute to the IronRuby source.

IronRuby Related Blogs

• IronShay – My blog :) stay tuned, there’s a lot to come in here.
• IUnkown – John Lam’s, the IronRuby PM, blog.
• jimmy.thinking - Jimmy Schementi’s blog.
• RubyDoes.Net – an IronRuby blog.
• Ivan Porto Carrero – the blog of the author of “IronRuby in Action”.

For .Net developers – Ruby resources

• Justin Etheredge’s IronRuby via C# series 
• Ruby-lang.org – The official Ruby site.
• Ruby tutorial – there are many of those, I just like this one :)
• Ruby on Rails – the official RoR site.

For Ruby developers - .Net resources

• Visual C# Developer Center – you will find everything you need there in order to get started with C#.
• Visual Basic .Net Developer Center – everything you need for learning VB.Net.

If I have missed something, please comment or contact me and I’ll add it!

Enjoy IronRubying!
Shay.

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