I spent a day chasing my tail and, upon catching it, realized my
DLR/IronRuby knowledge just isn't up to the challenge. Maybe someday. As
an alternative, I'm going to see if the IronRuby.Rack stuff on Git can
teach me what I need to wire Rack up to one of these embeddable .NET
HTTP servers: http://www.codeplex.com/webserver,
http://runkayak.com/getstarted, which ought to provide the same benefit,
and possibly perform a little better as well. Is anyone aware of other
embeddable .NET HTTP server projects?

(http://github.com/jschementi/ironruby/tree/92932a672921a03210c8aefe23ac
0a7d6996ed2d/Merlin/Main/Hosts/IronRuby.Rack)


-----Original Message-----
From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org
[mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Daniele
Alessandri
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:39 PM
To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Native Extensions

Hi Nathan,
yes, that's basically what you need to do:

1- rewrite the C (or Java) bits of the http parser in C# and let Ragel
generate the rest
2- wrap everything up in a layer to expose the needed methods to
IronRuby
3- make sure to require your newly built http11.dll in the ruby part
of the mongrel library
4- have fun.

I did the same for hpricot and json (whose parsers are generated using
Ragel), so I guess that should work for Mongrel too :-)


On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 03:09, Nathan Stults
<nathan_stu...@hsihealth.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. It looks like the Http Parser is generated via
> Ragel, and it appears there is a Java version of the language file, so
> theoretically all I should have to do is learn Ragel and port that
file
> to C#, piece of cake :) Then I suppose I'd need a patched version of
> mongrel that required the new .NET HTTP parser dll instead of the C
> version? Is that how that would work?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org
> [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy
> Schementi
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:00 PM
> To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org
> Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Native Extensions
>
> Native extension support is not on the roadmap for 1.0. Win32OLE
support
> is actually in there now, because of the Dynamic Language Runtime's
> support for dispatching to COM objects. So IronRuby's version of
> win32ole.rb uses IronRuby's OLE support, rather than depending on
native
> code.
>
> The current work-around for libraries which use native code to
> communicate with the OS or Ruby is to rewrite those using .NET so
> IronRuby can use them. Mongrel is actually \mostly Ruby code, as most
> Ruby libraries which use native code; there is usually a very small
part
> of the library which depends on native code. For Mongrel, the HTTP 1.1
> parser is the only native piece; rewriting that in C# would allow you
to
> run Mongrel on .NET.
>
> IMO, after 1.0 would be the time to consider supporting the native
Ruby
> API.
>
> ~Jimmy
> ________________________________________
> From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org
> [ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] on behalf of Nathan Stults
> [li...@ruby-forum.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 4:18 PM
> To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org
> Subject: [Ironruby-core] Native Extensions
>
> I noticed on the road-map this item under .NET Interop:
>
> [P3] COM: for Win32OLE compatibility
>
> Is that the same thing as supporting native extensions? If not, is it
on
> the roadmap to support such a thing? Also, is there a workaround, like
> replacing files in the gem installation with a .NET wrapper? I'd love
to
> use IronRuby to embed Thin or Mongrel in my .NET services, but from
from
> my few experiments it looks like most of the networking libraries
these
> servers use tend to rely on native dll's.
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