Is the current best practice for this to create a custom class for any Ruby types that need CLR integration, or should we use IronRubyInline<http://github.com/rvernagus/IronRubyInline>? I suppose it depends on your use case, but I would think the latter is probably the best option. Thoughts?
Ryan Riley Email: ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley Blog: http://wizardsofsmart.net/ Website: http://panesofglass.org/ On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Jimmy Schementi < jimmy.scheme...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Every Ruby class is not mapped to a unique CLR type (they are all > IronRuby.Builtins.RubyObject unless you subclass a CLR type or implement and > interface). So doing the IronPython ClrMetaClass equivalent would require a > speciic feature in IronRuby to give more control of the underlying CLR type > -- IronPython has already added this in the form of "__clrtype__". > > This work is not planned for 1.0, but definitely leaves a usability hole in > our CLR integration. The work-around is to create a empty C# class, and then > subclass it from Ruby -- there will be a unique CLR class generated for this > Ruby class. Things like CLR attributes need to go on the C# class. > > > ~Jimmy > Sent from my phone > > On Nov 29, 2009, at 4:07 AM, "Ivan Porto Carrero" <i...@flanders.co.nz> > wrote: > > Hi > > I'd like to get the runtime type of a ruby class > > The IronPython guys can do something like this (python substituted for > ruby) > require 'clr' > > class Person < Struct.new(:id, :name, :age) > end > > they can then do clr.ClrType(Person).FullName > > Something equivalent to that doesn't exist yet for ironruby does it? > > When I do Person.to_clr_type it returns nil > and other objects give me their base types > > Person.GetType => IronRuby.Builtins.RubyObject > > I'm actually trying to get the ironpython ClrMetaClass from Harry Pierson > written in ironruby. > --- > Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations > Ivan Porto Carrero > Blog: <http://flanders.co.nz>http://flanders.co.nz > Google Wave: <portocarrero.i...@googlewave.com> > portocarrero.i...@googlewave.com > Twitter: <http://twitter.com/casualjim>http://twitter.com/casualjim > Author of IronRuby in Action ( <http://manning.com/carrero> > http://manning.com/carrero) > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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