The productivity increase vs programming in a language like C# is a big one too :)
So why ironruby and not ruby? if you're a .NET shop you probably already have a serious investment in libraries, control suites and so on. With IronRuby you don't lose anything you can reuse those items but still get the productivity increase. As it so happens I tend to disagree that the rails stuff isn't for .NET people What I'm seeing is that Rails is the primary reason people look at IronRuby. For example I'm currently doing a 40 day coaching job at a company that is evaluating asp.net mvc and Rails. IMO and I'm fairly confident I know what's in the asp.net mvc framework, it still has a looooooooong way to go before it can get anywhere near what rails has to offer you. It would involve adding even more ruby/python features to C# (at some point they should then rename it to ironC or something). I have a chuckle every time I see a C# dev create a viewmodel or use stuff like: var myVariable = new MyGiantGeneric<MethodImplementations, ProperyImplementations, IAmAnInterface, IAmToo>(); When they say strong typed view, that's just plain funny because it's correct but also wrong at the same time what they really mean to say is statically typed view, but anyways. It basically boils down to do you want to deal with this typing nonsense or do you want to deal with it more intelligently (at a performance cost). When this coaching job is over I do a 4 day training course at another company on: Ruby/Rails + .NET, RSpec and testing best practices (or what to test). So in my opinion there is a keen interest for something more mature to take over. As you may know I've implemented ironruby mvc, because I assumed that's what .NET people would be interested in. There is 1 good use case for it if you have an existing asp.net mvc app otherwise I don't really see the point of using asp.net mvc for example and having to deal with generics and all other CLR nonsense. + everything shay said. PS: If I get the the sqlserver stuff to work with ActiveRecord properly I definitely want to do a datamapper adapter so I don't have to deal with ActiveRecord and its inconsistencies or actually writing sql --- Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto Carrero Blog: http://flanders.co.nz Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero) On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Shay Friedman <shay.fried...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > >
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