Ruby in C++

[Ellie]

Never heard of it, installed it, this is interesting!

I've had a play with it. It seems I can only create either a ruby project or a c++ project in Visual Studio though. The website says "and other .NET languages can use Ruby code just as easily. " so there must be a way. I'll look into it, thanks!

 

[ForeverZer0]

You you can include the Ironruby.dll in a C++/C# project. The whole point of it is to provide a simple interface between the languages. Take Gemini for example, it is written in C# but uses IronRuby for reading and creating Ruby data.

 

[Ellie]

I don't appear to have ironruby.dll on my computer, is it supposed to come with IronRuby?

 

[ForeverZer0]

%PROGRAMFILES%\IronRuby 1.1\Silverlight\bin

(The version may vary if you have 1.0)

You need to include IronRuby.dll, IronRuby.Libraries.dll, Microsoft.Scripting.dll. Microsoft.Dynamic does not need included, but it does need to be in the executing directory. If you are targeting your application for .NET 2.0 and using IronRuby 1.0, you will also need Microsoft.Scripting.Core.dll. Its not needed for 1.1, since the scripting core was merged with the system core in higher versions.