IronRuby on RubyForge

One of our challenges in the IronRuby project is reconciling two different source code layouts - the external subversion layout and our internal Team Foundation Server layout. We have quite a different environment internally, complete with customized shells etc. I'm the guy responsible for the transformation script that lays things out for you guys to hack on without having to take dependencies on our internal environment - so bugs here are all my fault.

The guts of the transformation script can be found in the Rakefile for those who are curious.

Since this is the first big test of this system, there are some issues that folks have found. For the time being, you should be able to build from the command line via the rakefile (rake compile). Note that you must run from the same directory as the rakefile - there is a bug in the rakefile for generating resources.

I still have to put together a .sln file for external folks, and remove some of the key signing residue from our .csproj files.

Oh yes, Merlin is the original code-name for our team, which was originally IronPython but has now expanded to include the Dynamic Language Runtime and IronRuby.

I'm happy to announce that we're live on Rubyforge today!

It's been nearly 6 weeks since our initial source code release at OSCON. So what's changed?

• Exception handling
• Parallel assignment
• Instance variables

Added some more library support:

• Comparable
• Enumerable
• Array
• Hash
• String (not quite complete yet)
• Dir

Go get the sources and have a happy hacking weekend!