Re: [Ironruby-core] How do you convince .Net developers to use IronRuby?

2009-11-03 Thread Thibaut Barrère
Very quick thoughts: - dynamic (ruby/python) is quite frightening for most .Net developers I know (they tend to have a mostly static background, C C++ Java .Net) - I tend to focus my energy on building useful stuff with X vs. advocating the use of X (valid point for .Net in 2001, Rails in 2005, Pas

[Ironruby-core] ironruby twitter list

2009-11-03 Thread Ivan Porto Carrero
Hi I created a twitter list for ironruby you can follow it @ http://twitter.com/casualjim/ironruby-community It might be a good idea to create such a list under the twitter @ironruby account, who's managing that? I've added a bunch of people from the people I'm following but if you're not on th

Re: [Ironruby-core] How do you convince .Net developers to use IronRuby?

2009-11-03 Thread Shay Friedman
Thanks all for your replys. I might have been a bit harsh with the word I chose... When I talk with .Net devs and present IronRuby to them, I don't really want to "convince" them it's the best language (it can't be, it's an entirely subjective opinion), I just try to add IronRuby to their list of "

Re: [Ironruby-core] How do you convince .Net developers to use IronRuby?

2009-11-03 Thread Huw Collingbourne
Re. Visual Studio integration. My company (SapphireSteel Software) released an alpha Visual Studio IDE for IronRuby about 18 months ago (Feb 2008): http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-For-IronRuby At that time, we offered to work with the IronRuby team to develop a more powerful IDE but

Re: [Ironruby-core] [ANN] IronRuby 0.9.2 Released

2009-11-03 Thread Dominic Sisneros
Thanks for this release. One problem with the MSI install is that it is requiring admin rights to install. This is not an option for me. thanks for all the hard work Dominic On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Jimmy Schementi < jimmy.scheme...@microsoft.com> wrote: > The IronRuby team is pleased

Re: [Ironruby-core] How do you convince .Net developers to use IronRuby?

2009-11-03 Thread Dotan N.
Shay, Based on your target audience I would do this agenda: 1. show a very intuitive DSL, go into source and expose ruby meta features, mixins, "reflection" 2. show how you twist a ruby object from ir 3. Embedded ruby as an ability to add scripting to your app 4. rapid prototyping if time allows

Re: [Ironruby-core] [ANN] IronRuby 0.9.2 Released

2009-11-03 Thread Jim Deville
I'll investigate. Tracking here: http://ironruby.codeplex.com/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=2969 JD From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Jimmy Schementi Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:53 AM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subjec

[Ironruby-core] Review: Fixes for double formatting on non-English culture

2009-11-03 Thread Shri Borde
tfpt review /shelveset:cul;sborde Comment : Ivan's build machine uses a Dutch-Belgium culture, where comma is used for the decimal point instead of a period. Need to use CultureInfo.Invariant to parse a float/double out of a string. cul.diff Description: cul.diff _

Re: [Ironruby-core] [ANN] IronRuby 0.9.2 Released

2009-11-03 Thread Jimmy Schementi
Jim, could we do a non-admin installer that puts the files in the user directory? From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] on behalf of Dominic Sisneros [dsisn...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:22 AM To: ironru

Re: [Ironruby-core] ironruby twitter list

2009-11-03 Thread Jimmy Schementi
Actually I know the person who has the @ironruby account, and they are willing to donate it to the IronRuby team, so now it a fine time to get that account. From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] on behalf of Ivan Porto Car

Re: [Ironruby-core] Review: Fixes for double formatting on non-English culture

2009-11-03 Thread Tomas Matousek
Looks good. Tomas From: Shri Borde Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:37 PM To: IronRuby External Code Reviewers; ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: Review: Fixes for double formatting on non-English culture tfpt review /shelveset:cul;sborde Comment : Ivan's build machine uses a Dutch-Belgiu

Re: [Ironruby-core] How do you convince .Net developers to use IronRuby?

2009-11-03 Thread Ryan Riley
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Huw Collingbourne wrote: > Re. Visual Studio integration. My company (SapphireSteel Software) > released an alpha Visual Studio IDE for IronRuby about 18 months ago > (Feb 2008): http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Ruby-In-Steel-For-IronRuby > > At that time, we offered to

Re: [Ironruby-core] [ANN] IronRuby 0.9.2 Released

2009-11-03 Thread Mark Ryall
igem fails to install gems to the default install location (c:\Program Files\IronRuby 0.9.2) presumably because of the spaces. I can't recall the exact error message but something about "invalid characters in the path". It seems fine if you install ironruby to a path that doesn't contain spaces.

Re: [Ironruby-core] [ANN] IronRuby 0.9.2 Released

2009-11-03 Thread Jim Deville
Please file a bug with us and i'll investigate to see if MRI acts identically. -Original Message- From: Mark Ryall Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:26 PM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] [ANN] IronRuby 0.9.2 Released igem fails to install gems to the def