Hi Ivan, On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 09:04 +0100, Ivan Porto Carrero wrote: > http://dlrci.colliertech.org/ironruby/ > > > Those builds are done on a mono machine
Thanks for the pointer to the other builds. I'll give that a go later today. I did notice the thing about the console (with the colors), but from google, it seems that's a Mono issue and not an IronRuby issue. > The console is a bit wonky at this point on mono. I don't know if it's > a mono thing or an IronRuby thing but you can't use arrow keys in the > console or tab etc. It takes the characters just doesn't interpret > them. I occasionally use irb for quick tests, but most of the time, I just write simple little scripts and run them with the main ruby interpreter. > > To make something run on linux download one of the packages and > extract in a folder, then add the bin path in that folder to your PATH > env variable. > > > The thing is the demo you tried are WPF demo's and they don't work on > mono because mono doesn't implement that technology. It's been a while since I did any C# development (pre-WPF), and that was mostly command-line and library stuff. I did do a few WinForms things, but not a lot. Sorry for the confusion. > If you're going cross-platform and you want a similar experience on > all platforms you're probably looking at using Qt, GTK# or Winforms at > this as GUI toolkit. > In about 8-10 months I guess silverlight 3 is a good option, and when > moonlight catches up to silverlight 4 then Silverlight is the only > choice that makes sense (money and time wise) I guess for building > cross-platform apps and providing the same experience on all of them. WinForms was my plan for the moment. Going the silverlight route is too many layers of alpha for what I'm trying to do (my own stuff, IronRuby and the UI toolkit would just be too much! :) > IronRuby is the Ruby language on the .NET framework so if you're new > to both it can hurt and the msdn docs don't yet show a ruby language > tickbox so it will be of great help if you at least know how to read > C# or VB. > I hope this helps you to get started, if not keep sending emails :) Thanks for the help and the pointers. I would've done most of my C# with .NET 1.1, but I've been using ruby pretty actively for about 5 years, including fighting with trying to use MRI and GTK+ on Linux for the last couple of years and experiencing random crashes due to the incompatible threading models. Even if I have to use the WinForms package for the UI (which I vaguely remember from doing some MFC work back in 99-01), at least there's a common, underlying runtime for all the bits that should play nicer together than what I've been doing. Ruby 1.9 isn't an option for me because I have too many dependencies that don't seem to work without changes (based on a quick re-try of that last night). Again, thanks for all the help. That should be enough to get me up and running, and Thibaut sent me a link to some WinForms/IronRuby examples too. I'll let you know if I have any more issues getting started. Cheers, ast --- > Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations > Ivan Porto Carrero > Blog: http://flanders.co.nz > Google Wave: portocarrero.i...@googlewave.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/casualjim > Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero) > > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Andrew S. Townley <a...@atownley.org> > wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Since I hear such good things about the rate at which features > are being > added to the project (and since it coincides with needing to > write some > cross-platform UI code), I thought I'd give the new version a > go. > > Here's my environment: > $ mono --version > Mono JIT compiler version 2.4.2.3 (tarball Mon Nov 23 08:34:29 > GMT 2009) > Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Novell, Inc and Contributors. > www.mono-project.com > TLS: __thread > GC: Included Boehm (with typed GC) > SIGSEGV: altstack > Notifications: epoll > Architecture: amd64 > Disabled: none > > $ mono bin/ir.exe --version > IronRuby 0.9.2.0 on .NET 2.0.0.0 > > $ uname -a > Linux linna 2.6.24-25-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 20 06:49:12 UTC > 2009 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > I'm having all kinds of trouble getting the examples to even > run. When > I try any of them, I get complaints about not being able to > load > libraries, e.g. the DiskUse demo: > > $ mono ../../bin/ir.exe app.rb > :0:in `require': no such file to load -- WindowsBase > (LoadError) > from app.rb:16 > > ...not to mention having all sorts of issues getting the > command-line > tools to run in Linux due to environment issues that I don't > really > understand (and I've been a Linux user since 1993 and a UNIX > user since > 1990). It sure seems like there's some environment magic > that's needed, > but I can't figure out what it really is. Nothing that I've > tried that > seemed like it should work did the trick. > > Q: is there an up-to-date guide for getting IronRuby working > with Mono > 2.4 anywhere? Everything I could find with google seemed at > least 2 yrs > old. There aren't any obvious links from either the ironruby > website or > from the mono site. > > Clearly based on Jimmy's OSCON 2009 post: > > http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/07/ironruby-at-oscon-2009-mono-moonlight.html, > it should all be working swimmingly. > > Apologies if this is a really dumb question. > > For what I need to do at the moment, I need to quickly > prototype some > small applications that need to work on Windows, Linux and > OSX. From > what I've seen, .NET & Mono seem to be the only real choice > for this at > the moment, but I'd prefer to not have to write C# code when > I'm doing > the prototypes (plus I've lots of ruby library code that I've > already > written for other purposes). > > What's the quickest way to get everything up and running (with > some > examples of actually running stuff from the command line on > Linux)? > > Thanks in advance for your assistance. I'm looking forward to > seeing > what I can do with IronRuby since I looked at it a few months > ago. :) > > Cheers, > > ast > -- > Andrew S. Townley <a...@atownley.org> > http://atownley.org > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Andrew S. Townley <a...@atownley.org> http://atownley.org _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
