OSCON is a happy place for me. It’s my third OSCON, and I created good memories at each one. At my first OSCON, I was showing off RubyCLR to the world, and I met some folks from Microsoft who convinced me that it was the right time in my life to go ship something big. At my second OSCON, I was working for The Man, and we announced that were accepting contributions into IronRuby – a big change at the time.
Today, we’re raising the bar even higher in IronRuby. There are three changes happening today:
1. 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. This takes us a big step closer towards “IronRuby runs real Ruby programs”.
2. We’re announcing a new project: ironruby-contrib. It’s hosted at GitHub, an awesome place to do collaborative development. The goal of ironruby-contrib is to provide a place where folks from the community can participate in projects that enhance IronRuby or its underlying platforms. The first project in ironruby-contrib is the Rails plugin that we demonstrated at RailsConf this year. It makes it easier for Rails developers to add Silverlight to their Rails applications, and contains some of our ideas about migrating controller code to the client. Jimmy Schementi is the brains behind the project; see his introductory blog post for more details.
3. We’re announcing that we’ve submitted our first set of changes to the awesome RubySpec project. We’ve been talking about contributing to RubySpec for a long time now, but various things kept us from doing so. We’ve fixed those things now, which takes us a big step closer towards being an active participant in all things Open Source, and not just the things that we create.
Congrats guys!
Posted by: Dr Nic | July 24, 2008 at 05:54 PM
congratulations~ first binary release!!
Posted by: 람다 | July 25, 2008 at 01:22 AM
Congrats on the release! And it's great to hear you guys can contribute to the Rubyspecs now too!
Posted by: David Whittington | July 25, 2008 at 07:20 AM
Bravo!
Keep on making a difference.
Posted by: Stefan Dobrev | July 25, 2008 at 03:56 PM
keep up the great work!
i just did a svn co of IronRuby for the first time :)
Posted by: Leslie W | July 25, 2008 at 07:34 PM
@LeslieW: awesome.
@*: Thanks!
Posted by: John Lam | July 25, 2008 at 10:06 PM
Great work! I am eagerly looking forward for the 1.0 IronRuby. May be it is the time for me to start trying IronRuby now. :)
Posted by: sgwong | July 26, 2008 at 05:19 AM
I got my Ruby implementation of Scheme working on IronRuby. The only change I needed to make to get it to work was to comment out my STDOUT.flush() calls. :) I'm having a blast with Ruby on the CLR; thanks so much for all your hard work!
Posted by: Joe Chung | August 10, 2008 at 03:13 AM
@Joe: Wow. That's awesome. Keep us posted on how your project's coming along. Yeah, I should also implement flush :)
Posted by: John Lam | August 10, 2008 at 03:29 PM