UPDATE: I had the chance to talk with Ivan about IronNails. Please read the interview over on InfoQ . As we see IronRuby make progress within Microsoft, we are also seeing new projects pop-up as well. One such project I have noticed and wanted to share is IronNails , created and opensourced by Ivan Porto...

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I have been doing a lot of C# development over the years and it has been my primary language since the days of C and C++ coding. I started working with Ruby for the past couple years doing personal projects and some client work too. It was an experience to learn Ruby after so long with C-type languages...

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  it is official, Professional IronRuby published by Wrox/Wiley is finally looking like it is a real thing.  A fellow developer noticed this on the Amazon web site and passed on to me today.  I was not even aware it was up yet. Aaron and I have a third author, Dan Bernier ,  so this...

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John Lam announced on his blog that the IronRuby team has successfully processed some simple requests with an unmodified copy of Rails. The plan is to show off this achievement at RailsConf this week . Congratulations to the team for many accomplishments in a short amount of time: We started our work...

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Curious about Microsoft's IronRuby implementation ? Try it out in your browser. Technorati Tags: Microsoft , IronRuby...

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I have been developing Ruby applications for the past couple years, not as my only work but part of my overall work. The IronRuby project is a large part of my work as well, not as a committer, but from a consumer standpoint. I am looking forward to the day where we can run Ruby on Rails on IronRuby...

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Aaron Junod , my co-author of Professional IronRuby I talked about already , did a great interview with John Lam at the recent MIX conference in Las Vegas. Aaron asked some great questions and as always John answered them very openly giving all those IronRuby enthusiasts something to look forward to...

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I finally found a bit of time to blog about a book I am writing with a friend of mine, Aaron Junod. You may be familiar with Aaron from the RubyDoes.NET web site . The title of the book is, you guessed it, Professional IronRuby and is being published by Wrox /Wiley Press. The topic is of course, IronRuby...

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John Lam recently demonstrated some great advancements the IronRuby team made by showing IronRuby on Silverlight at the recent RubyConf . This is important as being the first demo of code-first Silverlight but it also lets us look forward to running Ruby in the browser. John make this claim himself and...

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I started playing with the new drop of the IronRuby source this past Labor Day Weekend but found out quickly the source would not build due to the RakeFile included with the release. It was apparent the RakeFile was very specific to the Microsoft internal environment and it would not work for me. Thanks...

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