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Latest featured content about IronRuby

- Ruby
- Topics
- Ruby on Rails,
- IDE
One of the more interesting announcements recently coming to the Ruby community was the release of JetBrains RubyMine IDE for Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications. The Ruby community is known for not typically using an integrated development environment (IDE) such as .NET or Java developers use. Ruby developers usually stick to plain text editors such as TextMate, Vim and Emacs.
News about IronRuby
- .NET
- Topics
- Licensing,
- Open Source
Eric Nelson, a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft and Technical Editor of MSDN UK Flash, has compiled a list of 23 .NET open source projects mostly based on recommendations sent by UK developers. Other great projects did not make it into the list, while Microsoft’s contribution include: ASP.NET MVC, DLR, IronRuby, IronPython, MEF.
- Ruby
- Topics
- Runtimes,
- JRuby,
- Performance & Scalability
MacRuby joins the ranks of JRuby and IronRuby and moved away from Ruby 1.9's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL) in the experimental branch.
- .NET,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Runtimes,
- Rich Client / Desktop,
- Compilers,
- JRuby,
- .NET Framework
IronRuby's alive and kicking - and will go 1.0 in July. We look at some resources to get up to speed with IronRuby's status. Also: JRuby 1.3.1 is an important bug fix update for JRuby users, MacRuby continues to improve and MagLev now comes with a native parser.
Articles about IronRuby

- Ruby
- Topics
- Technology,
- Runtimes,
- JRuby,
- Dynamic Languages,
- Debugging
A misconception lingers in the Ruby world: Ruby has no debugger. This is blatantly wrong - Ruby has debuggers, GUIs for debuggers and APIs for debuggers. InfoQ takes a close look at the state of debugging tools in the Ruby world - and finds that its debugging support is more than sufficient.

- .NET,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Dynamic Languages
IronRuby, announced by Scott Guthrie at MIX07 last April and in development since then, is set to be released the second half of this year. Find out how the team is doing and when we will see it. InfoQ had the opportunity to speak with John Lam, the leader of the IronRuby team, whose official title is Program Manager on the Dynamic Language Runtime Team.
Presentations about IronRuby

- .NET,
- Ruby,
- Java
- Topics
- Runtimes,
- Language,
- JRuby
A look at the different Ruby virtual machines (JRuby, MagLev, IronRuby, Rubinius, MacRuby) and how to choose what fits best within the enterprise.

- .NET,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Runtimes,
- Rich Client / Desktop,
- Silverlight,
- Dynamic Languages,
- .NET Framework
At RubyFringe John Lam talks about his path to dynamic languages, some of the problems of making IronRuby run fast, and how the DLR helps with implementing languages.
Interviews about IronRuby

- Java,
- Ruby
- Topics
- Web Frameworks,
- Ruby on Rails,
- Application Servers,
- Enterprise Architecture,
- Platforms,
- Compilers,
- JRuby,
- Community
JRuby project lead Charles Nutter discusses how he got involved with JRuby, Sun's involvement with JRuby, how JRuby fits into enterprise-level web applications, the possibility of a friendly fork of the OpenJDK source code, reasons for switching to JRuby, the future of JRuby, Spring and JRuby, and the Ruby community as a whole.