IronRuby And The DLR

IronRuby and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)
Andre John Cruz19 December 2009

What’s IronRuby?

What’s a “Dynamic Language?”
Expressive
Can change at runtime
Flexible

Concept of “Duck Typing”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/guccibear2005/1387696735/

IronRuby Console and Ruby Syntax
From the command line
demo

The Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)
Rationale
Unified runtime
Embeddable

Using IronRuby from C#
CLR to DLR Interop using the “dynamic” keyword in .NET 4.0
demo

Why?
Why use a dynamic language?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/petereed/496392956/

Scripting App Sample
Jimmy Schementi’sRubyConf 2009 Demo
demo

Downsides
No Visual Studio IDE Integration
No LINQ, .NET attribute support
Lacking integration with .NET app frameworks
Performance hit

Future Directions
Visual Studio IDE Integration
LINQ, .NET attribute support
Integration with .NET app frameworks
Performance improvements

Additional Resources
Official Sites
http://www.ironruby.net
http://www.ironruby.info
http://ironruby.codeplex.com
http://www.ruby-lang.org
Blogs
http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com
http://www.flanders.co.nz
http://devpinoy.org/blogs/cruizer

The Definitive Sites for your Developer and IT Resources
TechNet Singapore
MSDN Singapore
www.microsoft.com/singapore/technet
www.microsoft.com/singapore/msdn

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IronRuby And The DLR

by Andre John Cruz on Dec 19, 2009

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