You can also look in my github account the samples for my book are published
there.

I don't have Webforms or Winforms samples there (except for the one provided
by thibaut for his Magic DSL), because I declared those techs dead a few
years ago.

A GUI toolkit I want to give a try sometime in the future is clutter
http://www.clutter-project.org/docs/clutter/stable/.
It's a .NET based OSS OpenGL GUI toolkit. But all those toolkits IMHO are
really stop gaps until SL is mature enough and Moonlight gets to SL4. (SL3
=> no rich-text editor which is used often in LOB apps, OOB mode is still
sandboxed)

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Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations
Ivan Porto Carrero
Blog: http://flanders.co.nz
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Author of IronRuby in Action (http://manning.com/carrero)



On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Andrew S. Townley <a...@atownley.org> wrote:

> 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
> >
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