[Ironruby-core] Looking for Examples

[Glen Cooper]

Thanks for the response.  So let me ask you this.  If you were to  
start building a project and wanted to leverage existing libraries out  
there, would you manually install them to your iron ruby install  
directory?  Or just add them into a gems folder in your project - like  
what merb does with frozen gems?

Regards,
Glen Cooper
(425) 802-6627
www.glenc.net

On Aug 27, 2008, at 12:42 AM, Ivan Porto Carrero wrote:

> As far as I know you can't use gems yet in IronRuby and that's also  
> why there is no example with unit tests etc. It can't be done atm.
> IronRuby has a minispec framework built in but that isn't as fully  
> featured as rspec for example.
> Basically building stuff with IronRuby is the same as with Ruby only  
> now you can use everything from .NET too.
>
> » ir -D
> IronRuby 1.0.0.0 on .NET 2.0.50727.3053
> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
>
> Note that local variables do not work today in the console.
> As a workaround, use globals instead (eg $x = 42 instead of x = 42).
>
> >>> require 'rubygems'
> => true
> >>> require 'pathname2'
> C:\tools\IronRuby\build\debug\..\..\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\rubygems/ 
> custom_require.rb:31:in `require': no such file
> oad -- pathname2 (LoadError)
>         from c:\tools\IronRuby\src\microsoft.scripting.core\actions 
> \matchcaller.generated.cs:35:in `Call3'
>         from c:\tools\IronRuby\src\microsoft.scripting.core\actions 
> \callsite.cs:275:in `UpdateAndExecute'
>         from c:\tools\IronRuby\src\microsoft.scripting.core\actions 
> \updatedelegates.generated.cs:45:in `Update3'
>         from :0
>         from c:\tools\IronRuby\src\microsoft.scripting.core\actions 
> \matchcaller.generated.cs:35:in `Call3'
>         from c:\tools\IronRuby\src\microsoft.scripting.core\actions 
> \callsite.cs:275:in `UpdateAndExecute'
>         from c:\tools\IronRuby\src\microsoft.scripting.core\actions 
> \updatedelegates.generated.cs:45:in `Update3'
>         from :0
>
> >>>
>
> If you're looking for the "Ruby way" of doing things then there are  
> plenty of libraries and ruby projects that you can study, for me  
> personally there is not much difference between programming against  
> either. If you already know .NET it's just a matter of getting the  
> hang of Ruby like where and when to use metaprogramming, embracing  
> hashes etc. For example:
>
> class Member
>
>    attr_accessor :name, :age, :marital_status, :children
>
>    def initialize(options)
>        options.each do |key, value|
>            instance_variable_set "@#{key}", value
>        end
>    end
>
> end
>
> member = Member.new :name => "Joe Schmoe", :age =>  
> 27, :marital_status => :married, :children => 2.1
> puts member.name
>
> Or you can take existing .NET classes and extend them
>
> module StringExtensions
>
>      def to_uri
>          System::Uri.new self
>      end
>
> end
>
> require 'mscorlib'
>
> class System::String
>    include StringExtensions
> end
>
> or
>
> System::String.include StringExtensions
>
>
> Check out ironruby-contrib on github that should hold at least 2  
> projects that go further than 'hello world'.
> http://github.com/ironruby/ironruby-contrib/
>
>
> Cheers
> Ivan
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Glen Cooper <glen at glenc.net> wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone can point me to some good example projects  
> using IronRuby.  Specifically I'm looking for libraries and projects  
> using some of the things we take for granted with regular ruby  
> development - rake, gems, rspec, etc.  I'm starting a project of my  
> own and since there isn't a lot of documentation out there yet I  
> figure looking at other projects is the best way to see how it's done.
>
> I'm not looking for projects that just use small pieces of IronRuby  
> - I really want to see how someone would build a library or end-to- 
> end solution leveraging gems, rake tasks, and unit testing in  
> IronRuby.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Glen Cooper
> (425) 802-6627
> www.glenc.net
>
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