IronRubyInline gives you a better workflow between writing C# and Ruby, so it gives you nice way to create a CLR type, but both ways are techically equivalent, so either way is fine. Personally I'd use the inline option.
Keep in mind that ironrubyinline requires you to be able to call csc.exe and write a DLL to disk at runtime, so make sure your environment supports that -- you might need to pregen the dlls in a partial trust, for example, but for development it's perfectly fine. ~Jimmy Sent from my phone On Nov 29, 2009, at 2:40 PM, "Ryan Riley" <ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org<mailto:ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org>> wrote: Is the current best practice for this to create a custom class for any Ruby types that need CLR integration, or should we use IronRubyInline<http://github.com/rvernagus/IronRubyInline>? I suppose it depends on your use case, but I would think the latter is probably the best option. Thoughts? Ryan Riley Email: <mailto:ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org> ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org<mailto:ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org> LinkedIn: <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley Blog: <http://wizardsofsmart.net/> http://wizardsofsmart.net/ Website: <http://panesofglass.org/> http://panesofglass.org/ On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Jimmy Schementi <<mailto:jimmy.scheme...@microsoft.com>jimmy.scheme...@microsoft.com<mailto:jimmy.scheme...@microsoft.com>> wrote: Every Ruby class is not mapped to a unique CLR type (they are all IronRuby.Builtins.RubyObject unless you subclass a CLR type or implement and interface). So doing the IronPython ClrMetaClass equivalent would require a speciic feature in IronRuby to give more control of the underlying CLR type -- IronPython has already added this in the form of "__clrtype__". This work is not planned for 1.0, but definitely leaves a usability hole in our CLR integration. The work-around is to create a empty C# class, and then subclass it from Ruby -- there will be a unique CLR class generated for this Ruby class. Things like CLR attributes need to go on the C# class. ~Jimmy Sent from my phone On Nov 29, 2009, at 4:07 AM, "Ivan Porto Carrero" <<mailto:i...@flanders.co.nz>i...@flanders.co.nz<mailto:i...@flanders.co.nz>> wrote: Hi I'd like to get the runtime type of a ruby class The IronPython guys can do something like this (python substituted for ruby) require 'clr' class Person < Struct.new(:id, :name, :age) end they can then do clr.ClrType(Person).FullName Something equivalent to that doesn't exist yet for ironruby does it? When I do Person.to_clr_type it returns nil and other objects give me their base types Person.GetType => IronRuby.Builtins.RubyObject I'm actually trying to get the ironpython ClrMetaClass from Harry Pierson written in ironruby. --- Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto Carrero Blog: <http://flanders.co.nz> <http://flanders.co.nz> http://flanders.co.nz Google Wave: <mailto:portocarrero.i...@googlewave.com> <mailto:portocarrero.i...@googlewave.com> portocarrero.i...@googlewave.com<mailto:portocarrero.i...@googlewave.com> Twitter: <http://twitter.com/casualjim> <http://twitter.com/casualjim> http://twitter.com/casualjim Author of IronRuby in Action (<http://manning.com/carrero><http://manning.com/carrero>http://manning.com/carrero) _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list <mailto:Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org>Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org<mailto:Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org> <http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core>http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list <mailto:Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org>Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org<mailto:Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org> <http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core>http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org<mailto:Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
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