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Sunday, July 29, 2007 -
Test Drive with IronRuby and System.Windows.Forms
Per Scott Guthrie’s blog I was inspired to take a look at IronRuby. Even though it is in pre-alpha, I could not resist given the appeal of Ruby with the rich libraries available in the .Net framework.
After building the IronRuby solution, I took the rbx.exe, along with the related assemblies, and dropped them into a new folder. Here is a look at the folder content.
I then created a file named example.ir.
Next, I ran the IronRuby exe with the new file.
This resulted in the window below.
After clicking the Click Me button:
On a side note, the shot above of the example.ir file is from Notepad2. The syntax highlighting, even with an .ir extension, is from changing the custom scheme in Notepad2. Look at a previous post to see how to change the schemes for syntax highlighting. If you want a build of Notepad2 with Ruby syntax highlighting, go to Scott Hanselman's blog for the build and source code.
