Hi Brandon,
Thanks, it works like a charm. I would love to know why, though :)
The working syntax was actually without the .dll extension: load_assembly
'SharedClasses'
If you're on Stack Overflow, feel free to reply to my answer (so you can
get the rep for it). If not, I will reply myself, so that it's forever
documented.
Cheers,
--Ashiq
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Brandon Doot <brandon.d...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Ashiq,
>
> I remember running into something similar, I think I needed to use:
>
> load_assembly 'SharedClasses.dll'
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Ashiq A. <alibhai.as...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a class defined in C# which I'm creating in Ruby and returning;
>> then C# adds it to an array. It's simple (honest).
>>
>> My setup is simple: the main project, and a class library called
>> "SharedClasses." Here's a class:
>>
>> public class SimpleItem
>> {
>> public string Name { get; set; }
>> public int Value { get; set; }
>>
>> public SimpleItem(string name, int value)
>> {
>> this.Name = name;
>> this.Value = value;
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Okay, nothing special here. Now, in Ruby, here's the script I want to run:
>>
>> require 'SharedClasses.dll'
>> include SharedClasses
>> SimpleItem.new("Red Gem", 100);
>>
>> What I want to achieve, is to return the instance created back to C#, and
>> add it to a List<SimpleItem>.
>>
>> I can't do it. Currently, I get an InvalidOperationException: "can't
>> convert SharedClasses::SimpleItem into SharedClasses::SimpleItem"
>>
>> Here's the code I use to create the Ruby instance:
>>
>> var engine = Ruby.CreateEngine();
>> var newItem = engine.Execute<SimpleItem>(ruby);
>>
>> I posted a Stack Overflow question for a more complex version of this
>> problem (this is the simplest case I could distill). Under other
>> circumstances, I can see that the two instances are the same, except their
>> context (one is Default and one is LoadNeither).
>>
>> Full post is here:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18774700/cant-convert-xyz-to-xyz-in-ironruby
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> --Ashiq
>>
>> P.S. Visual Studio 2012 solution zip file, including IronRuby 1.13 via
>> NuGet, is available here: http://temp-share.com/show/KdP0s538h
>>
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