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Ironruby is out, and there are some noteworthy posts out there.

John Lam announces it’s availability, and provides a download link and build instructions. If you even want to call them instructions, simply download the zip, unzip, and run build.cmd from a visual studio command prompt. He also announces the final home of IronRuby will be on rubyforge, the defacto standard for hosting open source ruby projects. He also announces that IronRuby will be administered under a liberal Microsoft open source license, and community code contributions will be welcome.

Scott Guthrie provides some background into the DLR project, and then walks us through a initial hello world app using IronRuby which utilizes WPF. If you are like me you might just type all the code into a window read Scott’s whole post and download the zip file at the end, the wpf.rb is also required which simply sets up some variables and assembly bindings.

Scott Hanselman provided a meatier sample, in which he found some pre-alpha weirdness, which is more then expected. He outlines some initial typing issues, and also raises what could be a very interesting topic for the IronRuby team. In Ruby classes are Pascal cased (initial caps), but in .net there are no rules about capitalization within classes. For now he had to rename the class in his external DLL so IronRuby could address it, but I’m sure that’s something that will be addressed quickly. His meatier sample calls the Wesebe web services and displays the results in a WPF form.

Javier G. Lozano also provides a simple sample of trapping an event with sample c# and IronRuby code.

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