Orion, That's great to hear, especially that writing Ruby scripts make people happy :) But onto your roadmap questions: we don't plan on supporting calling C# extension methods, or using CLR attributes in Ruby code.
For C# extension methods, it takes a ton of work to find extension methods, as IronRuby would have to scan every loaded assembly, and map those static extension methods back to the type you'd expect them to be on. It's a feature where performance will only affect compile time, but at runtime would be very slow. In the meantime, a good work-around is to monkey-patch those extensions methods onto the correct types using Ruby. CLR attributes are difficult because it would require a unique CLR type to be emitted for a type which uses CLR attributes; today we use a shared underlying CLR type for all Ruby types, unless a unique CLR type already exists (in the case where you inherit from a CLR type, implement an interface, etc). Today we suggest people create a stub type in C# which has the attributes, and then have your Ruby class inherit from that type. While this is a bit of a cop-out, libraries like IronRubyInline (http://github.com/rvernagus/IronRubyInline) can make it really easy to mix C# and Ruby code. If you'd like more effort to be focused on these features for 1.0, please open a bug on codeplex (or find an already open bug) and vote on it. ~js From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Orion Edwards Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:57 PM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby 0.9.1 Congrats on the release! It solves a few of the bugs I've encountered and overall seems a bit faster which is always good. It's getting really nice to use these days. We are using it internally for automated UI testing with White, and have got our QA people writing IronRuby scripts, which they are really happy with :-) I just have a couple of minor roadmap questions: 1. Is "support" for CLR extension methods planned before the release of 1.0? 2. Also is CLR attribute support planned? Cheers, Orion
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