[Ironruby-core] trouble with super and .NET classes

[Dermot Hogan]

The VS editor supports Ruby - it doesn't care which flavor it is. I can 
edit and launch IronRuby from the editor just like I can with JRuby or 
classic Ruby.

I can also generate IronRuby code from the Form Designer and generate a 
Form layout back from the Ruby code. What I can't do is run the 
generated IronRuby like you would VB or C# ... that's why I need the 
Windows inheritance in IronRuby. The VS Form Designer is very picky and 
works in a very specific way. You really have to do exactly what it 
expects you to do. I've also got to code the Form Designer merge logic.

I haven't tried the debugger yet. The basics should be reasonably easy, 
but I suspect the difficult bit will be getting the inspectors to work. 
I spent a lot of time with Matz's Ruby getting VS debug expressions (the 
watch windows and debug data tips) to work correctly. The main problem 
is that there is no defined syntax for the string returned by inspect - 
you can return what you like - and there are at least 7 or 8 different 
formats.

The bulk of the work is really stitching the whole thing together - 
there's no show stopper in there (but the Form Designer can be a real 
pita). My problem is that I'm doing this in my spare time - of which I 
don't have a lot :(

Dermot
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