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John Lam has released revision 93 to SVN. This new release now passes 1541/2468 specs (62%). Click here to see the output of all the tests.

The highlights from the commit logs :

• r89 Minor updates to Ruby to support hosting in ASP.NET
• r93 A bunch of String specs have were re-enabled since we no longer crash when parsing them
• A bunch of regex functionality (still using .NET regex) is enabled - =~, sub,gsub etc. are now implemented in this release.
• There was a split in the way the DLR is organized. Microsoft.Scripting.Core.dll is the DLR, and Microsoft.Scripting.dll are where libraries like the Math libraries for the DLR will live from now on.

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Seo Sanghyeon also updated the HOWTO and patches for working with IronRuby from within Mono.

John Lam has also mentioned that since the release of r93 he has bee working heavily on String, specifically the parts of String required for running Rails. He reports 70% of String required to run Rails is passing!

Thanks again to the IronRuby team, both inside and outside Microsoft for their hard work!

Charles Oliver Nutter started a conversation raising concern about the openness of the design and development discussions within the IronRuby team. John Lam responded the next day with some ideas on how to bring us non softies closer to the internal discussions. This also led to this thread talking about last week’s commits.

File and IO are the first libraries that seem to be getting attention from the community. This thread kicks off the discussion.

This thread describes a current bug in evaluation that raises a “CLR Has detected an invalid program exception” based on setting a variable to the return of a block. If you set your assignment to a different line then the declaration you should avoid this issue until it’s fixed.

This thread talks about getting IronRuby working on mono.