This question keeps coming back :) Testing is a great use of IronRuby, maybe even the top reason for .NET guys to use it. However, there are more reasons for .NET guys to adopt IronRuby like: - Writing internal tools. - Make it possible to extend .NET applications using IronRuby. - Using IronRuby's REPL capabilities for quick POCs or to enhance current .NET applications. - Silverlight and Gestalt development - Writing DSLs - Running Ruby on Rails on IIS "natively" (this one is not so much for the .NET developer, but it's a great reason too :-) ).
All in all, it will be tremendously hard to convince C#/VB.Net guys to work with IronRuby. Moreover, it'll be twice as hard until VS fully supports the language. Having said that, I do believe that as time goes by the walls will collapse and IronRuby will become a common tool among .NET devs. Shay. -------------------------------------------------------- Shay Friedman | .NET Technologies Expert | Author of IronRuby Unleashed | Sela Technology Center Blog: http://IronShay.com | Twitter: http://twitter.com/ironshay On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Mohammad Azam <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking about why to use IronRuby and one of the things that came > to my mind is because of better gems like spec, cucumber etc. Mostly my > use of IronRuby is around unit testing .NET CLR frameworks. But then > .NET CLR implementations is catching up with all these tools like > specflow and (.NET implementation for cucumber not sure about the name). > > RAKE is awesome but usually I just use sh to execute shell scripts and > perform the build. Currently, I am not interacting RAKE with .NET > assemblies so it is pure Ruby implementation. > > So, what do you think? Where would you use IronRuby? > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core >
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