Apply IronRuby to Get Started Building Next-Generation UIs
IronRuby represents the marriage of the Ruby language to the .NET Common Language Runtime.
by Paul Ferrill
February 1, 2008
etting popular open source software (OSS) languages running on Microsoft .NET started when Microsoft adapted Python, creating the .NET version called IronPython. The latest OSS project to get the Microsoft treatment is IronRuby, which is part of a new Microsoft focus on dynamic languages. IronRuby and IronPython are big players in Microsoft's Silverlight project, which is based on the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR).
Ruby is a relatively new language with a large and enthusiastic following in the Web 2.0 world, primarily generated by Ruby on Rails (RoR). Created by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals, Ruby on Rails is a web framework intended for developing database-driven applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
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etting popular open source software (OSS) languages running on Microsoft .NET started when Microsoft adapted Python, creating the .NET version called IronPython. The latest OSS project to get the Microsoft treatment is 
